Chapter 29 Review: 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. (wrong)
    2. decomposing dead organic matter. <==== correct
    3. walled spores produced in sporangia. (wrong)
    4. multicellular gametangia. (wrong)
    5. multicellular dependent embryos. (wrong)

  3. The first great vascular forests flourished in the ________ period.
    1. Carboniferous <==== correct
    2. Jurassic (wrong)
    3. Triassic (wrong)
    4. Cambrian (wrong)
    5. Pleistocene (wrong)
  4. The closest relatives of land plants are
    1. green algae. <==== correct
    2. ciliates. (wrong)
    3. brown algae. (wrong)
    4. golden algae. (wrong)
    5. euglenids. (wrong)
  5. The clade of land plants with large gametophytes is
    1. charophyte. (wrong)
    2. bryophytes. <==== correct
    3. ferns. (wrong)
    4. horsetails. (wrong)
    5. lycophytes. (wrong)
  6. Bryophyte gametophytes are anchored by
    1. rhizoids. <==== correct
    2. roots. (wrong)
    3. holdfasts. (wrong)
    4. talons. (wrong)
    5. stipes. (wrong)
  7. Vascular plants possess which unique feature?
    1. roots. <==== correct
    2. sporangia. (wrong)
    3. gametangia. (wrong)
    4. embryos. (wrong)
    5. gametes. (wrong)