Chapter 29: Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land

  1. Plantae Alternation of Generations exercise

  2. Innovations among the Plantae include the following EXCEPT:
    1. apical meristems.
    2. decomposing dead organic matter.
    3. walled spores produced in sporangia.
    4. multicellular gametangia.
    5. multicellular dependent embryos.
  3. The closest relatives of land plants are
    1. green algae.
    2. ciliates.
    3. brown algae.
    4. golden algae.
    5. euglenids.
  4. Bryophyte gametophytes are anchored by
    1. rhizoids.
    2. roots.
    3. holdfasts.
    4. talons.
    5. stipes.
  5. The clade of land plants with large gametophytes is
    1. charophyte.
    2. bryophytes.
    3. ferns.
    4. horsetails.
    5. lycophytes.
  6. The first great vascular forests flourished in the ________ period.
    1. Carboniferous
    2. Jurassic
    3. Triassic
    4. Cambrian
    5. Pleistocene