Guided Reading Chapter 17Read 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
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