Biology, Eighth Edition (Raven)

Chapter 30: Overview of Green Plants

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the evidence supporting the evolution of plants from green algae.
• Describe haplodiploidy as it relates to the typical plant life and reproductive cycle.
• Understand the adaptations necessary for plants to become dominant terrestrial organisms.
• Explain why liverworts and mosses are not monophyletic.
• Differentiate between vascular and nonvascular plants.
• Compare the gametophytic and sporophytic stage of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
• Understand the morphology of gamete production in each of the major plant phyla.
• Explain the evolutionary significance of the seed as it pertains to terrestrial life.
• Understand how reproduction in a gymnosperm differs in angiosperms.
• Differentiate between the two angiosperm lineages.
• Describe the structures and function of those structures in a flower.
• Describe angiosperm double fertilization.