Guided Reading Chapter 17 Read 16 13 and 16 14 pages 330 331 and Chapter 17 pages 342 354 1 What are protists and how do they differ from prokaryotes 2 What are algae and how do they obtain food 3 Where do protists live 4 How did auxotrophic eukaryotes evolve 5 How would the algal ancestors of plants inhabiting shallow water have accumulated some of the first adaptations that permitted life on land 6 What were some of the advantages to life on land in the earliest land plants 7 Which adaptation in plants allowed them to maintain moisture Around the same time that this first adaption evolved a second adaption evolved that permitted gas exchange What was it 8 Plants have to transport water and minerals up from their roots and distribute sugars that are made in the leaves throughout their bodies How do they accomplish this 9 Land plants can grow to impressive heights What major cell wall component evolved in plants and allows them to do this 10 The seedless nonvascular bryophytes were some of the earliest plants Do bryophytes have anything in common with vascular plants If so what 11 What do ferns and bryophytes have in common 12 What are gymnosperms 13 What do the gymnosperms and ferns have in common 14 The arrival of flowers and the appearance of angiosperms is the most recent event in plant evolution What is a flower 15 Plants alternate between haploid and diploid generations What does this mean 16 What is a gametophyte 17 What is a sporophyte 18 Compare and contrast the gametophyte of a seed plant to that of a seedless plant 19 Is a pinecone a male or female gametophyte 20 Draw and label the different parts of a flower On your drawing indicate where meiosis and mitosis occur may occur 21 What is a fruit and how does the structure of a fruit aid in dispersal
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