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WS 2.3: Gymnosperms
Answer the following questions:
1. Identify the description of the plant as a Bryophyte (B) Seedless vascular plant (SVP) or Gymnosperm (G)
a. ______A plant that has vascular tissue and produces spores
b. ______A Christmas tree
c. ______A plant that lacks vascular tissue
d. ______A plant that has cones
e. ______A plant that has vascular tissue and produces seeds
f. ______A plant that can absorb large amounts of water through It’s leaves
2. Do all Gymnosperms generate seeds?
3. What do all gymnosperms generate seeds in?
4. What characteristics separate the gymnosperms, such as the plants you look at in this lab, from the seedless vascular plants?
5. When you look at a gymnosperm are you looking at the sporophyte or gametophyte?
6. What 2 parts do all seeds have that spores lack?
7. What is the most commercially important group of gymnosperms?
8. What make a conifer smell “Piney”
9. What is the purpose of the resin that conifers produce?
10. What did ferns develop to turn into conifers?
11. Why do conifers have needle shaped leaves?
12. What allows conifers to be the largest and oldest organisms in the world?
13. What are bryophytes?
14. What did bryophytes develop to turn into ferns?
15. What do ferns and mosses produce that gymnosperms don’t produce?