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REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1.Reproduction can serve two different functions. What are they?
Producing offspring that have identical copies of the parental genes
or generating new individuals that are genetically different from the
parents.
4. With asexual reproduction, are progeny ever more fit, more adapted than
the parent?
No because in asexual reproduction, progeny are never more fit and
never more adapted than the parent.
5. Look at the apples in Fig. 9.1a, all growing on a single tree. Do all of the
seeds in all the apples in the photograph have the same maternal parent? Do
they all have the same paternal parent?
Yes, all of the seeds in all of the apples in the tree have same
maternal parent. No, they dont have the same paternal parents because
all the seeds of all the apples in the tree have different paternal parent.
6. Sexual reproduction produces offspring that are not identical to each other
or to either parent. Usually, some are more well-adapted that the parents,
some are more poorly adapted, most are about as adapted. What is one of
the beneficial aspects of this diversity?
The beneficial aspect of this diversity is in both stable environments
and changing ones, sexual reproduction provides enough diversity of
progeny that at least some are well adapted.
7.
In stable populations, ones that are neither increasing nor decreasing
in abundance (for example, there are a million trees now, there will be a
million trees a thousand years from now), about how many of a plants seeds
survive and grow to adulthood, being able to replace it when it dies? If during
the plants lifetime it produces 100, 000 seeds, how many do not survive, do
not grow and cannot replace it when it dies? (Hint: dont think of humans, we
are an increasing population, not a stable one. Almost all our children
survive, but that is not true of any other species. )
8.
Describe the life cycle of us humans. Are the tissues and organs in our
bodies made up of diploid cells or haploid ones? Our reproductive organs
make sperm cells in males and egg cells in females. Is this done by mitosis or
meiosis? When our bodies make gametes, does every cell in our body
become a sperm cell or an egg cell, or do just some of the cells in our
reproductive organ do this? Can our haploid sperm and egg cells undergo
mitosis and grow into new animals that look like us but are haploid instead?
(Haploid eggs do grow in bees. They develop into males.) Once a fertilized
egg (zygote) is formed, is it diploid or haploid? Can it immediately undergo
meiosis to make four new sperm cells or egg cells or can it only grow by
mitosis into another person?
No, this haploid cells cannot undergo mitosis and grow into new
animals.
9.
The plants we are familiar with are called sporophytes or the
sporophyte generation. Do these plants have bodies made up of diploid cells
or haploid ones? In which organs does meiosis occur (two are correct)the
leaves, stems, stamens, roots, carpels or petals? When plants undergo
meiosis, do all cells become haploid, or does meiosis occur in just few cells in
some flower parts?
10
In animals, meiosis produces gametes (sperm cells and egg cells), but
that does not happen in plants. When some of the cells of a sporophyte
undergo meiosis, what types of cells are produced? What do they grow into?
11.
What is a gametophyte? How many different types of gametophytes
are there in a plant life cycle? What do they look like (hint: Fig. 9.5b)? Do the
sporophytes and gametophytes of seed plants ever look like each other?
A MICROGAMETOPHYTE.
A microgametophyte produces the sperm cell (gamete)
A MEGAGAMETOPHYTE.
13. Flowers typically have many parts, although some flowers can be
missing some of the standard parts. What is the name of each of the
following parts:
a.
b.
The end of the stalk, where the other parts are attached receptacle
c.
The parts that are usually green and protect the flower bud as it
develops sepals
d.
e.
f.
The parts that receive pollen and which contain ovules carpels
14. If a flower has all of the parts c, d, e, and f in Question 13 they are said
to be complete flowers. Parts e and f are especially important because they
produce the reproductive cells, the spores. If a flower has both e and f in
Question 13, they are perfect flowers. If they are missing either e or f or
both, they are imperfect flowers.
15.
17. A stamen usually has two parts. The stalk is called a filament and an
upper portion, the anther, which produces the pollen. Only some of the cells
in the upper part undergo meiosis and become pollen grains (microspores).
Those cells are called microspore mother cells or microsporocytes.
Neighboring anther cells, in a layer called the tapetum, act as nurse cells.
18. Carpels usually have three parts: a stigma that catches pollen grains, a
style that elevates the first part, and an ovary where megaspores are
produced. In this last part, there are placentae that bear small structures
called ovules each with a short stalk called a funiculus and a central mass of
parenchyma called nucellus. One cell in the nucellus will be the megaspore
mother cell or megasporocytes.
20. After pollen lands on a stigma, it is far away from the ovule with the
megagametophye, which holds the egg (megagamete). How are the two
sperm cells transported from the stigma to the egg?
They are carried by the pollen tube.
"The pollen tube is the male gametophyte of seed plants that acts as
a conduit to transport the male gamete cells from the pollen grain,
either from the stigma (in flowering plants or angiosperms) to the
ovules at the base of the pistil, or directly through ovule tissue in
some gymnosperms (conifers and gnetophytes).
21. In angiosperms, as a sperm cell enters the egg, it loses both ______ and
_______such that only the sperm cell nucleus contributes any DNA to the new
zygote. In gymnosperms, however, the sperm cell loses only its ________
such that the zygote inherits both plastids and a nucleus from the sperm cell.
a. Mitochondria
b. Plastids
c. Mitochondria
22. After the sperm cell enters a synergid, one fertilizes the egg in a two-step
process. First, there is a fusion of the sper cells protoplasm with that of the
egg, a step called _______________. Then the sperm cell nucleus fuses with the
egg cell nucleus, the second step called _____________.
a. Plasmogamy
b. Karyogamy
23. What happens to the second sperm nucleus, the one that does not
fertilize the egg cell? What is the tissue that develops from this second
fertilization? How is coconut related to this?
a. The second sperm nucleus released from the pollen tube
migrates from the synergid into the central cell. It undergoes
karyogamy with both polar nuclei establishing a triploid
containing three full sets of genes.
b. Endosperm
c.In double fertilization, the endosperm nucleus initiates a
dynamic cytoplasm and the central cell enlarges enormously
into a huge cell with hundreds of nuclei. When the division
stops, the dense cytoplasm fathers around the nuclei. Walls
are constructed, thus forming cells.
As for its relation to coconut, the hollow center of a coconut is
one single cell, and the milk is the protoplasm. The coconut
meat is the region where nuclei form cells.
24. In most eudicot seeds, the parts of the embryo are very easy to see.
Describe each of these parts: a. Cotyledons b. Radicle c. Hypocotyl d.
Epicotyl e. How is the radicle involved in these different root systems
(fibrous and taproot)
a. Cotyledons (seed leaves)are the primordia that initiate from
the end of the embryo farther from the suspensor, they are
formed in embryogenesis. Monocots have only one cotyledon
while Dicots have two.
b. A radicle is the elongation cylinder of an embryo. It is an
embryonic root that becomes the primary root. It contains
several primordia for lateral roots in its pericycle.
c. The hypocotyl is the root junction. It is the stem of the
germinating seed that is found below the cotyledons and
above the radicle.
d. The epicotyl is the embryonic shoot above the cotyledons. In
most plants the epicotyl will eventually develop into the leaves
of the plant.
e. In a taproot system, the taproot arises from the radicle
while in a fibrous root system, roots arise after the radicle has
died.
25. What are albuminous and exalbuminous seeds? Consider corn, peas, and
beansWhich of these seeds are which?
26. After pollination and fertilization, as the ovule develops into a seed, the
ovary matures into a ________________. Many of these have three parts, the
__________________ is the skin or peel, the _________________ is the flesh and
the innermost layer, the _________________, may be tough like the pit of a
cherry.
After pollination and fertilization, as the ovule develops into a seed, the
ovary matures into a fruit. Many of these have three parts, the exocarp is
the skin or peel, the mesocarp is the flesh and the innermost layer, the
endocarp, may be tough like the pit of a cherry.
Animals never have to worry about the equivalent problem of selffertilization because they cannot self-fertilize themselves. No individual
animal can fertilize itself. Animals must undergo fertilization by sex cells
which are not identical to increase the genetic diversity of the offspiring.
Microgametophytes
b.
Megagametophytes
c.
Staminate sporophytes
d.
Carpellate sporophytes
29.
30. In several and animal species, plants have become modified such that
only its animal partner can pollinate it, and the animals have become
modified such that only its animal partner can pollinate just their plant
partner. What is the name of this type of evolution that results in two
organisms becoming particularly adapted to and dependent on each other?
Coevolution is the type of evolution that results in two organisms
becoming particularly adapted to and dependent on each other
31. Explain the following terms: inferior ovary, superior ovary, actinomorphic
flower, zygomorphic flower. How is each of these modifications selectively
advantageous?
Inferior Ovary-An inferior ovary lies below the attachment of other floral
parts. A pome is a type of fleshy fruit that is often cited as an example,
but close inspection of some pomes (such as Pyracantha) will show that it
is really a half-inferior ovary. Flowers with inferior ovaries are termed
32. What is an inflorescence? The inflorescences of a sausage tree (Figure 929) hang far down out of the tree. How is this of benefit to bats? Why can the
inflorescence of Combretum (Figure 9-30b)attract more pollinators than can
the individual flowers?
Inflorescence a discrete group of flowers
- Flowers of sausage trees (Kigelia) are pollinated by bats, which do not
like to fly among the clutter of leaves because their sonar does not work
well there. Long stalks allow flowers to hang open air where bats have
free access to them.
33. After pollination and then fertilization, what usually happens to each of
the following: stigma, style, carpel, ovule, interguments, and zygote?
-Stigma-the base of the stigma turns into the fruit.
Zygote- develops into embryo
Ovule-becomes the seed.
The rest-withers.
34. Fruits are often classified as dry or fleshy. What is the difference? Which
of these two are dehisent, which are indehisent?
-Fleshy fruits types are the berry, in which the entire pericarp is soft and
pulpy (e.g., the grape, tomato, banana, pepo, hesperidium, and blueberry)
and the drupe, in which the outer layers may be pulpy, fibrous, or leathery
and the endocarp hardens into a pit or stone enclosing one or more seeds
(e.g., the peach, cherry, olive, coconut, and walnut). The name fruit is
often applied loosely to all edible plant products and specifically to the
fleshy fruits, some of which (e.g., eggplant, tomatoes, and squash) are
commonly called vegetables. While Fleshy fruits types are the berry, in
which the entire pericarp is soft and pulpy (e.g., the grape, tomato,
banana, pepo, hesperidium, and blueberry) and the drupe, in which the
outer layers may be pulpy, fibrous, or leathery and the endocarp hardens
into a pit or stone enclosing one or more seeds (e.g., the peach, cherry,
olive, coconut, and walnut). The name fruit is often applied loosely to all
edible plant products and specifically to the fleshy fruits, some of which
(e.g., eggplant, tomatoes, and squash) are commonly called vegetables.
35. in ordinary english, we use the word fruit to mean something sweet and
juicy; however, the following things are fruits; peanut shells, pea pods, bell
peppers, and chilli peppers. What is the characteristic that lets us know
these really are fruits even though they are not sweet? In contrast, bananas
are fruits that do not have this characteristic (they are sterile and new plants
must be grown from buds but sprout near the base of the plant).
-"Fruits that consist of ripened ovaries and other parts such as the
receptacle or bracts, as in the apple, are called accessory fruits or false
fruits.
To most of us, a fruit is a plant part that is eaten as a dessert or snack
because it is sweet, but to a botanist a fruit is a mature ovary of a plant,
and as such it may or may not taste sweet."
36. Some things that we call fruits are not true fruits but instead are
accessory (false) fruits. What is the red part of a strawberry, and what are
the true strawberry fruits? (Hint: see Figure 9-32a) In an apple, what is the
fleshy part that we eat, and what is the core that we throw away?