Title: Plant Classification
1Plant Classification
Quiz 12C
One of the traits used in classifying plants is
the presence or absence of vascular tissue.
Xylem and phloem are the most familiar, but there
are others.
2Vascular plants plants that have vascular
tissue. Nonvascular plants plants that do not
have vascular tissue.
Do you think that plants without vascular tissues
are tall or short? Why?
3Another important trait used to classify plants
is whether they produce seeds.
Nonvascular plants seedless and reproduce by
producing gametes in one stage of their life
cycle and spores.
Vascular plants some reproduce by gametes and
spores others by gametes and seeds.
4The 3 Major categories of plants
5Non-vascular plants
Phylum Bryophyta
moss
liverwort
hornwort
6Non-vascular plants
These plants are called bryophytes. Phylum
Bryophyta (means mosslike plant)
7Non-vascular plants
- Water and other materials are transported by
diffusion. - Fairly short.
8Non-vascular plants
- Sometimes have parts that look like roots,
stems, or leaves, but there is no vascular tissue
so they dont have roots, stems, or leaves. - Live near water or shady places.
9Just because a plant has the word moss in its
name, doesnt make it moss. Examples
- Irish moss (algae)
- Reindeer moss (lichen fungus algae
- Spanish moss (flowering plant)
10Irish Moss
11Reindeer Moss
12Spanish Moss
13Parts of a moss plant
leafy shoot- a slender stalk with leaflike
structures each of the tiny leaflike structures
on moss is 1 cell layer thick rhizoids- tiny
hairless threads which grows into the soil to
absorb water and minerals not roots- lack
conditioning tissue
14Parts of a moss plant
Leafy Shoot
Rhizoids
15Moss Leafy Shoot
16Life Cycle of Moss
Alternation of Generations
- Sporophyte Generation produces spores (asexual)
- Gametophyte Generation produces gametes (sexual)
17Life Cycle of Moss
Gametophyte Generation
- The top of the male gametophyte bears the
antheridia which produces sperm - The top of the female gametophyte has one or more
archegonia which contains the ova - Sperm swim from the antheridia to the archegonia
and fertilizes an ovum (zygote)
18Life Cycle of Moss
Sporophyte Generation
- Zygote grows into a stalk with a capsule which
produces spores - When mature the cap comes off and spores disperse
- Spore grows when environmental conditions are
right - First grows into a cellular filament called a
protonema - Protonema then forms the leafy shoots and rhizoids
19Life Cycle of Moss
Protonema
20Moss
21Moss Capsule
22Liverworts
Liver Plant
Marchantia a common liverwort with a y-shaped
thallus
Have splash platforms which look like little
umbrellas
23Benefits of Mosses
- Help to replenish the soil
- Help to prevent soil erosion
- Peat moss or Sphagnum is used by gardeners to
pack plants for shipment and in Iceland and other
northern regions it is used as fuel - Has been used for surgical dressing
24Phylum Pterophyta
- Vascular Plants Without Seeds
Ferns
25Ferns nonflowering vascular plants
- Spore-bearing leaves
- Horizontal undergound stems
- 1-2 feet tall
- Tropical ferns may grow as tall as 60 ft. with
fronds 12-14 ft. - Some are epiphytes
26Parts of a fern
- Fronds leaves
- Rhizome a creeping or underground stem, which
produce roots - Sori groups of spore-bearing sporangia (means
a heap)
27 Fern Sori
Sori may be round, kidney-shaped, oblong, linear,
curved, or star-shaped.
28Sporophyte Generation of Ferns
A new ferns life cycle typically begins in July
with the appearance of sori on the undersurface
or along the margins of a frond.
29Sporophyte Generation
- Sori appear on the underside of a frond.
- Sori first open and discharge millions of spores.
30Gametophyte Generation
Spore develops into a tiny green, heart-shaped
structure called a prothallus.
Seldom seen, only 1 cell layer in thickness.
31Gametophyte Generation
The underside of the prothallus develops
archegonia and antheridia
Antheridia near the point (sperm)
Archegonia at notched end (ova)
32Gametophyte Generation
Sperm are released from the antheridia and swim
to the ovum at the bottom of the archegonia.
33Sporophyte Generation
Zygote matures and sends the first leaf up and
the first root down.
The first leaf is often a fan-shaped blade.
The second leaf is usually a fiddlehead, a coiled
young leaf. Some fiddleheads are edible and used
in salads.
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35Fern Alternation of Generation Facts
Ferns usually require 3-7 years to reach
reproductive maturity.
Fern plants (sporophytes) live for several years
and produce new fronds each year
Dominant generationSporophyte
36Fern Alternation of Generation Facts
Protellia (gametophytes) only live 3-7 weeks, in
which time they produce the archegonia and
antheridia.
Dominant generation Sporophyte
37Other seedless vascular plants club moss,
whiskfern horsetail
club moss
whiskfern
horsetail
38club moss
club mosses (also called "ground pine" because
they grow along the ground in temperate regions)
39horsetail
- all but one group have become extinct
- the epidermis contains a glasslike substance
(silica) which feels very rough to the touch - called "scouring rushes" - used for scouring
pots and pans before scouring powder and pads
were known.
40Vascular Plants with Seeds
- These plants do not require water for sexual
reproduction. - They reproduce by seeds rather than spores.Â
- Seeds are multicellular and contain a young plant
called an embryo.
41Vascular Plants with Seeds
Two main groups of seed plants
42gymnosperms
- the seed plants that do not first produce a
flower before the seed - means "naked seed" - produce seeds not covered
by the walls of an ovary - do not form flowers or fruits
- produce cones or cone-like structures
43gymnosperms
44angiosperms
- The Flowering Plants means covered seed
- All have seed enclosed in a fruit
- All have flowers (not all are colorful blossoms
- corn tassels and catkins of oak trees)
45angiosperms
46Gymnosperms vs Angiosperms