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Phylum Ginkgophyta: Ginkgo Fossils show species once widely distributed Only one species remains: Ginkgo biloba Historically found in Japan and China Commonly used in landscaping but no longer exists in wild Fan-shaped leaves resemble leaflets of fern Reproductive features Sperm have flagella Reproductive structures produced on separate trees Fruits have foul odor Male plants generally planted, propagated from shoots Very resistant to air pollution, often planted in cities
Angiosperms - one phylum Phylum Anthophyta - flowering plants - 250,000 spp. Flowers, heterosporous, double fertilization ovule and seeds enclosed in sporophytic tissue - carpel at maturity carpels form fruit around seed Great variety: huge trees, tiny duckweed, microscopic seeds to coconuts mostly photosynthetic autotrophs, some parasitic
Page 1: Kingdom Plantae Characteristics chl
Page 6 and 7: Characteristics of nonvascular plan
Page 8: Terms: Sporophyte - a multicellular
Page 11 and 12: Vascular Plants - have vessels (tub
Page 13 and 14: Phylum Pterophyta - the ferns, whis
Page 15 and 16: Whisk Ferns remnants of earliest va
Page 17 and 18: Phylum Lycophyta: Club Mosses World
Page 19 and 20: Gymnosperms comprise 4 phyla Conife
Page 21 and 22: Conifer reproduction: heterosporous
Page 23 and 24: Conifer reproduction: Female cones
Page 26 and 27: Phylum Cycadophyta: Cycads Slow gro
Page 30 and 31: Flower structure: modified stems be
Page 32 and 33: Angiosperm life cycle Male gametoph
Page 34: Double fertilization: One sperm nuc
Page 37: Classes of Angiosperms: Class Monoc

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