What Is the Type of Reproduction Carried out in the Structure Illustrated Here?
- What is the type of reproduction carried out in the structure illustrated here?
- Sexual reproduction
- Asexual reproduction
- Bisexual reproduction
- Heterosexual reproduction
- What is the structure that is being pointed at?
- Spermatocyte
- Antheridium
- Zygote
- Archegonium
- What is the structure shown here?
- Gametangium
- Gamete
- Sporangium
- Archegonium
- What is the ploidy level and stage of the structures illustrated?
- 1: haploid, gametophyte; 2: diploid, sporophyte
- 1: diploid, sporophyte; 2: haploid, gametophyte
- 1: Haploid, sporophyte; 2: diploid, gametophyte
- 1: Diploid, gametophyte; 2: haploid, sporophyte
- What do the megaspores illustrated in this strobilus become?
- Spores
- Female sporophytes
- Male sporophytes
- Female gametophytes
- The indicated structures are called:
- Antheridia
- Sori
- Archegonia
- Sporangia
- What does this structure contain?
- Male gametes
- Female gametes
- Both male and female gametes
- Neither male nor female gametes
- What are the structures indicated?
- Pollen grains
- Female gametes
- Microsporocytes
- Microspores
- What is the structure indicated?
- Ovary
- Ovule
- Pollen grains
- Female microspore
- What are pollen grains?
- Mature male sporophytes
- Mature male gametophytes
- Immature male gametophytes
- 2N
- In moving to land, plants had to overcome which of the following challenges?
- Lessavailable CO2 in the atmosphere than in the oceans
- Desiccation
- Lack of structural support
- Both b and c
- Plants undergo alternation of generations in which ______.
- The sporophyte generation alternates with the gametophyte generation
- The vascular generation alternates with the nonvascular generation
- Male plants alternate with female plants
- Antheridia alternate with archegonia
- ______protect(s) pollen grains from environmental damage.
- Sporopollenin
- Lignin
- Cuticles
- Stomata
- The gametophyte state of the plant life cycle is most conspicuous in ______.
- Ferns
- Mosses
- Horsetails
- Seed plants
- Which of the following produce eggs and sperm?
- Megaphylls
- Fern sporophytes
- Moss gametophytes
- Megaspores
- Moss sporangia
- Fertilization in moss occurs when sperm swim from a(n) ______and down the neck of a(n) ______.
- Antheridium; sporangium
- Antheridium; archegonium
- Archegonium; antheridium
- Sporangium; archegonium
- How are gametes produced in plants?
- By mitosis of gametophyte cells
- By meiosis of gametophyte cells
- By meiosis of sporophyte cells
- By mitosis of spores
- By meiosis of spores
- Ferns and mosses are limited mostly to most environments because ______.
- They lack cuticles and stomata
- They lack vascular tissue
- They have swimming sperm
- Their seeds do not store water
- The dots on the underside of a fern frond are spore cases; therefore, what is true of the plant to which the frond belongs?
- It is a spore
- It is a gamete
- It is a sporophyte
- It is a gametophyte
- Heterosporous plants produce ______.
- Megaspores that develop into female gametophytes and microspores that develop into male gametophytes
- Megaspores that develop into male gametophytes and microspores that develop into female gametophytes
- Megaspores that bear antheridia and microspores that bear archegonia
- Spores that produce both archegonia and antheridia
- Sori can be found in which of the following?
- Mosses
- Pterophytes
- Lycophytes
- Charophyceans
- Which of the following adaptations is common to all seed plants?
- Reduced gametophytes
- Pollen
- Ovules
- All of the above
- Which one of the following is true of seed plants, but not true of seedless plants?
- The sporophyte is dependent on the gametophyte
- The sporophyte is large, and the gametophyte is small and independent
- The gametophyte is reduced and dependent on the sporophyte
- A film of water is necessary for sperm to come in contact with eggs
- The eggs of seed plants are fertilized within ovules, and the ovules then develop into ______.
- Seeds
- Gametophytes
- Fruit
- Ovaries
- What gymnosperm phylum is characterized by large cones and fern-like leaves?
- Anthophyta
- Gnetophyta
- Coniferophyta
- Cycadophyta
- What is located in the scalelike structures packed densely in pollen cones?
- Sporophyte
- Sporangia
- Megasporocytes
- Developing pollen tubes
- Each pollen grain of a gymnosperm contains a ______.
- Male gametophyte
- Microsporocyte
- Megasporocyte
- Fertilized ovule
- In ovulate cones megasporocytes undergo _____ and produce _____ megaspores
- Mitosis; diploid
- Meiosis; diploid
- Mitosis; haploid
- Meiosis; haploid
- Which types of angiosperms would most likely be wind-pollinated rather than animal-pollinated?
- Oak and maple trees
- Roses and tiger lilies
- None of the choices are correct. Plants with flowers are not wind-pollinated
- The portion of a flower that receives the pollen is the ______.
- Filament
- Ovary
- Stigma
- Style
- A pea pod is formed from ______. A pea inside the pod is formed from ______.
- An ovule; a carpel
- An ovary; an ovule
- An ovary; a pollen grain
- Endosperm; an ovary
- The pollen tube releases two sperm cells into the embryo sac. The result of this is the ______.
- Union of the two sperm nuclei; forming a zygote
- Union of one sperm nucleus with the egg nucleus while the other sperm nucleus unites with two nuclei of another megagametophyte cell, forming a triploid nucleus
- Union of one sperm nucleus with the egg nucleus and the disintegration of the other sperm nuclei.
- Fusion of both sperm nuclei with the egg nucleus and the formation of a triploid zygote
- The triploid nucleus of the embryo sac develops into the ______.
- Endosperm
- Fruit
- Carpel
- Seed
- Which of the following characterizes eudicots
- Pollen grains with three openings, floral parts in multiples of three, netlike veins
- Two cotyledons, netlike veins, taproot usually present
- Scattered vascular bundles, netlike veins, floral parts in multiples of five
- Leaves with parallel veins, taproot usually present, vascular bundles arranged in rings.