Overview of Plants
• Are plants multicellular or unicellular?
Multicellular
• Eukaryotic or Prokaryotic?
Eukaryotic
•Of what is their cell wall composed?
Cellulose
• How do they obtain nutrition?
Autotrophs
Plant Evolution
FlowersMosses
Vascular System
Seeds
Pines
Ferns
Flowering Plants
Plant Cell Structure
Vacuole
Nucleus
Chloroplast
Cell Wall
Station #1Evolutionary Advances of Plants
Algae: Is it a Plant?
www.alagebase.org - courtesy of Mike Guiry
Station #2Nonvascular Plants
• Bryophytes - early land plants
Station #2Nonvascular Plants
Contains Spores
Rhizoid
Station #3 Plant Tissue
Ground
Vascular
Dermal
Station #3 Con’t.
• How does the human circulatory compare to xylem and phloem?
• How does the human skeleton compare to xylem?
Station #4 Con’t.
• What do roots do for the plant?
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu
Station #5Leaves
Vein
Mesophyll
Stoma
Guard Cells
Xylem &
Phloem
Cuticle
Epidermis
Station #5 Con’t.
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2OH2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
H2O
A B
Station #5 Con’t.
H2O
H2OH2O H2O
Station #6Primitive Vascular
Station #7Gymnosperms
Female ConeMale (Pollen Cone)
Station #8Angiosperms
Station #9Angiosperm Specimens
Station #10Parts of a Flower
Filament Anther Style Stigma
Ovary
Petal
OvuleSepal
Stamen Pistil
Station #11Two Types of Angiosperms
Dicot Monocot
Station #11 Con’t.
Station #11 Con’t.
• Leaves
Dicot Leaf
Monocot Leaf
Station #12Cross Sections of Roots,
Leaves and StemsRoots
Monocot Dicot
Leaves
Monocot DicotStems
Monocot Dicot
Station #13Seed Dispersal
Station #14
Mosses
Vascular System
Flowers
Seeds
Pines
Ferns
Flowering Plants