Plants get their water and nutrients from the soil by forming a special relationship with

New research shows that algae that first landed on land posessed the genes needed to form relationship with the myoorrhiza.

Fungi release poweful enzymes to breakdown surrounding matterial so fungi and take up nutrients. This also helps to develop ______________ for plants to grow in.

The white hair-things that you may see when you pull a plant up and look at the roots are known as

The fungal structures that form symbiotic relations with plants benefit the plant by (more than one answer)

The reserach on the relationship between fungi and plants is fairly recient. Yet, the first fossil specimen and record dates back to 1843.

This example of the fungi (prototaxites) study is a great example of (more than one answer)

It wasn't until the 1990's When Francis Hueber took a closer look at prototaxites and concluded that it was in the fungus family. It wasn't until _________________ that the chemical make up of the organism was tested.

The chemical element that helped to identify prototaxites as a fungu was

The university that features plant science as a major is

What plant is discussed in the video, "How Plants Domesticalted Humans" presented by Dr. Jackson?

The plant chemicals she (Dr. jackson) discusses are known as

What country does Dr. Jackson say her study was done in?

What human disease is Dr. Jackson's study based on?

Plant evolution begins with

Some characteristics that plant ancestors had in common with primitive plants are (more than one answer)

There are few places on earthwhere the 500,000 species of plants are not adapted but some are (more than one answer)

Which of the following is the major factor affecting distribution of plants and structural adaptations?

An adaptation like growing very tall and creating a canopy would be typical for a ______________________ type plant.

Because plants can photosynthesize they are the base of the food chain and the beginning of the

Some other roles that plants play are (more than one answer)

Plant foods consist of ___________ of the world's calories.

Some characteristics of life are...(more than one answer)

Which of the following is NOT a living thing? (more then one answer)

Bacteria, archaea and eucaryota are the three domains of life.

One thing that bacteria and archaea share is

One thing that separated archaea from bacteria was the

We base our modern taxonomy on the work of

One problem with Linnaeus' system of naming was that he classified organisms based on

Many other scientists helped to improve Linnaeus system. The latest one is

The four main groups of plants (land plants) to be familiar with are Gymnosperms, Angiosperms and (more than one answer)

Some land plant characteristics are they are all eukaryotic, autotrophs, have a cell wall, are terrestrial and (more than one answer)

Alteration of Generations means that there are two forms of life cycle they are (more than one answer)

Plants are able to go through a chemical process to convert CO2 and water into simple sugars. This process is known as

Plants, just like all living things go through a chemical reaction in the cell to use the simple sugars to drive the mechanism to produce energy molecules...ATP. This process is

The four types of land plants represent "steps" on land that evolved. The first step was to be on land and the plants that represent that step are

The second step land plants took was to develop vascular tissue to move water and nutrients thoughout the plant. These plants are

The third step land plants took was to develop seeds. Containers to protect the plant embryo. Plants that represent this step are

The fourth step land plants took was to develop flowers to attrack pollinators and to form very complex seed containers to supply plenty of food for the embryo. These are known as