BIOL 300, Outline #4, EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES

 

1.      Plant kingdom characteristics

 

2.      Alternation of generations

 

3.      Phylogeny

 

4.      Evolution of diversity

a.       development of durable spores, gametangia, etc

b.      development of vascular tissue

c.       development of seeds

d.      development of flowers and fruits

 

5.      Seedless, non-vascular plants

a.       Hepatophyta

b.      Anthocerophyta

c.       Bryophyta

 

6.      Life cycle of Bryophyta

 

7.      Seedless vascular plants

a.       Lycopodiophyta

b.      Pteridophyta

 

8.      Life cycle of ferns

 

9.      Seed plant characteristics

a.       reduced gametophytes

b.      pollen

c.       retained female gametophyte

d.      seeds

 

10. Gymnosperms

  1. general characteristics
  2. classification

1)      Cycadophyta

2)      Ginkgophyta

3)      Gnetophyta

4)      Coniferophyta


  1. life cycle

1)      cones

2)      microgametogenesis

3)      megagametogenesis

4)      pollination

5)      fertilization

 

11. Angiosperms

  1. economic and ecological importance
  2. derivation and fossilization
  3. classification

1)      monocots

2)      eudicots

3)      paleoherbs (basal tricolpates) and ancestral magnoliids

  1. life cycle

1)      flower structure

2)      flower variations

3)      microgametogenesis

4)      megagametogenesis

5)      pollination

a)      wind

b)      animal vectors

c)      coevolution

6)      fertilization

7)      embryogenesis

8)      fruit development