PLANTS!

Overview of Plants

• Are plants multicellular or unicellular?

Multicellular

• Eukaryotic or Prokaryotic?

Eukaryotic

•Of what is their cell wall composed?

Cellulose

• How do they obtain nutrition?

Autotrophs

Plant Evolution

FlowersMosses

Vascular System

Seeds

Pines

Ferns

Flowering Plants

Plant Cell Structure

Vacuole

Nucleus

Chloroplast

Cell Wall

Station #1Evolutionary Advances of Plants

Algae: Is it a Plant?

www.alagebase.org - courtesy of Mike Guiry

Station #1 Con’t.

Station #2Nonvascular Plants

• Bryophytes - early land plants

Station #2Nonvascular Plants

Contains Spores

Rhizoid

Station #3 Plant Tissue

Ground

Vascular

Dermal

Station #3 Con’t.

• How does the human circulatory compare to xylem and phloem?

• How does the human skeleton compare to xylem?

Station #4 Roots

Station #4 Con’t.

• What do roots do for the plant?

http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu

Station #5Leaves

Vein

Mesophyll

Stoma

Guard Cells

Xylem &

Phloem

Cuticle

Epidermis

Station #5 Con’t.

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2OH2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

H2O

A B

Station #5 Con’t.

H2O

H2OH2O H2O

Station #6Primitive Vascular

Station #7Gymnosperms

Female ConeMale (Pollen Cone)

Station #8Angiosperms

Station #9Angiosperm Specimens

Station #10Parts of a Flower

Filament Anther Style Stigma

Ovary

Petal

OvuleSepal

Stamen Pistil

Station #11Two Types of Angiosperms

Dicot Monocot

Station #11 Con’t.

Station #11 Con’t.

• Leaves

Dicot Leaf

Monocot Leaf

Station #12Cross Sections of Roots,

Leaves and StemsRoots

Monocot Dicot

Leaves

Monocot DicotStems

Monocot Dicot

Station #13Seed Dispersal

Station #14

Mosses

Vascular System

Flowers

Seeds

Pines

Ferns

Flowering Plants