Botany Ch. 23

The ancestors of today's land plants were probably

• brown algae

• red algae

• green algae

• lichens

The waxy protective covering of a land plant is called a

• cuticle

• capsule

• rhizome

• stoma

Some land plants developed an internal system of interconnected tubes and vessels called

• cuticles

• nonvascular canals

• a circulatory system

• vascular tissue

The diploid form in a plant's life cycle is called the

• sporophyte

• gametophyte

• parental generation

• alternate generation

A haploid stage following a diploid stage in a plant's life cycle is called

• generational recycling

• periodic gametogenesis

• alternating forms

• alternation of generations

Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts all possess

• fibrous roots

• spore capsules

• tap roots

• green leaves

The sporophyte generation in mosses produces spores by

• meiosis

• mitosis

• sexual reproduction

• asexual reproduction

In which of the following structures do seedless plants produce eggs?

• antheridia

• capsules

• archegonia

• cones

Fiddleheads are produced by

• whisk ferns

• club mosses

• ferns

• horsetails

Both mosses and ferns produce gametes through

• mitosis

• meiosis

• osmosis

• diffusion