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1 Origins of Plant Life

KEY CONCEPT Plant life began in the water and became adapted to land.

20.1 Origins of Plant Life

True plants evolved through natural selection.

seedless Non Vascular

20.3 Diversity of Flowering Plants

Flowering plants have unique adaptations that allow them to dominate in todays world. Flowers allow for efficient pollination. animals feed on pollen or nectar pollen is spread from plant to plant in process

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20.3 Diversity of Flowering Plants

Fruit allows for efficient seed dispersal. Fruit is flowers ripened ovary Surrounds and protects seed(s) Many forms, each function in seed dispersal

20.3 Diversity of Flowering Plants

Botanists classify flowering plants into two groups based on seed type. A cotyledon is an embryonic seed leaf. Monocots have a single seed leaf.
A leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant. Most cotyledons emerge, enlarge, and become green after the seed has germinated. Cotyledons either store food for the growing embryo (as in monocotyledons) or absorb food that has been stored in the endosperm.

20.3 Diversity of Flowering Plants

Dicots have two seed leaves.

leaf veins usually netlike flower parts usually in multiples of 4 or 5 bundles of vascular tissue in rings in stem

20.1 Origins of Plant Life

A seed is a storage device for a plant embryo. seed coats protect embryos from drying wind and sunlight Dormancy is when embryo is alive but not growing. embryo develops when environment is favorable (temperature, moisture, light, etc.)

20.2 Classification of Plants

Angiosperms have seeds enclosed in some type of fruit. A flower is the reproductive structure of angiosperms. A fruit is a mature ovary of a flower. Evolution has made things more attractive/ desirable.

Angiosperms, or flowering plants, belong in phylum Anthophyta.