Plant Diversity & Structure 1.General Characteristics 2.Major Plant Groups 3.Plant Evolution.
Liverworts Domain Eukarya Kingdom Plantae Phylum Bryophyta.
Biology 103 - Main points/Questions 1.Remember how plants and animals reproduce? 2.What else makes plants special 3.What is different about the fungi?
Plants Land plants retain derived features they share with green algae: – Chlorophyll a and b. – Starch as a storage product. – Cellulose in cell walls.
Chapter 23 Introduction to Plants 1. 1. Autotrophs 2. Multicellular 3. Eukaryotes 4. Cell Wall is made out of Cellulose 2.
Chapter 17 – Introduction to Plants Plant Evolution and Diversity: The Colonization of Land.
Meiosis. Heredity and Variation Heredity –Is the transmission of traits from one generation to the next Variation –Shows that offspring differ somewhat.
Life Cycle Summary Diploid Life cycle Haploid Life cycle Alternation of Generations Mitosis? Meiosis? Fertilization Mitosis after meiosis? Mitosis after.
1. Meiosis and chromosome number 2.Steps in meiosis 3.Source of genetic variation a.Independent alignment of homologues b. Recombination.
Simple Plants: Chapters 20 and 21 Simple Plants: Chapters 20 and 21 20-1 Characteristics of Algae.
AP Biology 2007-2008 Domain Eubacteria Domain Archaea Domain Eukarya Common ancestor Kingdom: Animals Domain Eukarya.
Chapter 29 Notes Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land.
