1120 Lab 16 - 17

Seedless Plants Seed Plants (all vascular)
Non-vascular Vascular (xylem, phloem) Gymnosperms Angiosprems
Mosses Ferns Conifers (pine) Flowering Plants
Gametophyte (n) Dominant
Rhizoids
Sporophyte (2n) Dominant
(Gametophyte significant, rhizoids)
Sporophyte Dominant Sporophyte Dominant
Reproduce by Spores
(haploid)
Spores (haploid)
from sorus
Seeds (diploid -naked in cone) Seeds (diploid - in fruit)
Swimming sperm cells Sperm in pollen
(wind-blown male gametophyte)
Pollen
(wind-blown and animal carried)
Require moist places Adapted to dry land

 

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