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15. Plants lacking well-developed conducting systems such as mosses, liverworts, and hornworts have been called
16. Which of the following represents a monophyletic group?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
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17. Which plants are characterized by a conducting system, the possession of cuticles,
specialized stems, and roots, stomata, and, in many species, seeds?
18. Bryophytes, like ferns and certain other tracheophyte plants, require
19. The colorless rootlike projections of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, which anchor
them to the substrate are called
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20. Plants and their predecessors, green algae, do not share the property of
21. Well-developed vascular systems are absent in all of the following except
22. Survival on land for organisms is difficult because of the problem of
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23. Tracheophyte plants are characterized by all of the following except
24. Plant success on the terrestrial landscape is linked to the evolution of all of the following
except
25. The dominant stage in the life cycle of tracheophyte plants is the
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26. Plants as well as brown, green, and red algae show a basic life cycle which involves the
alternation of generations between a(n)
27. The gametophyte is green and nutritionally independent in
28. To reproduce sexually, bryophytes require
29. Among the bryophytes, which of the following contain distinct stemlike axis, small
leaves, and rootlike rhizoids?
30. Which of the following features are common to both moss leaves and true leaves?
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What type of thinking is required?
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What do you already know about mosses and true leaves? What other information is
related to the question?
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Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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31. Hornworts differ from mosses and liverworts in containing
32. In tracheophyte plants, water and dissolved minerals are conducted away from roots by
33. The most abundant group of seedless tracheophyte plants are the
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34. All of the following statements about ferns are correct except
35. A bryologist (a scientist that studies mosses, and their allies) gives a lecture to your
biology class. In her lecture, she makes a reference to fern reproduction. She says, “Fern
spores germinate into ____.”
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36. Whisk ferns, club mosses, and horsetails have all the following characteristics in common
with ferns except
37. Advances in molecular systematics show that whisk ferns and horsetails are the closest
living relatives of
38. Which one of the following statements about haplodiplontic life cycles is false?
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39. Which one of the following structures in the moss life cycle is not haploid?
40. Which of the following groups is most closely related to the tracheophytes?
41. For which of the following organisms is the sporophyte stage the dominant stage in the
life cycle?
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42. Which one of the following statements about a typical fern life cycle is false?
43. Which one of the following traits would be found in a typical fern but not a moss?
44. How do lycophytes differ from bryophytes?