PLANTS Overview of Plants Are plants multicellular or

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 Pines Flowering Plants Ferns Flowers Mosses Seeds Vascular System

Plant Cell Structure Vacuole Chloroplast Cell Wall Nucleus

Station #1 Evolutionary Advances of Plants Algae: Is it a Plant? www. alagebase. org - courtesy of Mike Guiry

Station #1 Con’t.

Station #2 Nonvascular Plants • Bryophytes - early land plants

Station #2 Nonvascular Plants Contains Spores Rhizoid

Station #3 Plant Tissue Vascular Dermal Ground

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

Station #5 Leaves Vein Cuticle Xylem & Phloem Mesophyll Epidermis Stoma Guard Cells

Station #5 Con’t. H 2 O H 2 O H 2 O H 2 O A B H 2 O

Station #5 Con’t. H 2 O

Station #6 Primitive Vascular

Station #7 Gymnosperms Male (Pollen Cone) Female Cone

Station #8 Angiosperms

Station #9 Angiosperm Specimens

Station #10 Parts of a Flower Pistil Stamen Filament Anther Style Stigma Ovary Ovule Sepal Petal

Station #11 Two Types of Angiosperms Dicot Monocot

Station #11 Con’t.

Station #11 Con’t. Monocot Leaf • Leaves Dicot Leaf

Station #12 Cross Sections of Roots, Leaves and Stems Leaves Roots Monocot Dicot Stems Monocot Dicot

Station #13 Seed Dispersal

Station #14 Pines Flowering Plants Ferns Flowers Mosses Seeds Vascular System