Botany Test 2

• Began 500 million years ago
• 450 moved to land
• 300 seeds formed

Closest relative to the plants from the green algae family

• apical meristems
• spores produced in multicellular sporangia
• multicellular gametangia
• produce a multicellular depenent embryo
• allteration of generations

A thick coating on seeds that keep them safer, this is not present in charophytes

The gametangia that can be formed for the plants

• Archegonia is female organ
• Antheridia is the male organ

Lifecycle where a multicellular sporophyte and a multicellular gametophyte take turns producing each other gametophyte always being haploid and the the sporophyte always being diploid

• Cuticle Formation- protective coating to keep leaves from drying out 
• Protection of the Embryo by the mother plant or some other method
• Vascular Tissue once you get into the seedless vascular plants
• Seeds forming to help with fertilization and spreading the species
• Flowers to attract pollinators 

Small, fake leaved plants with no vascular tissue that often grow in temperate or tropical forests and near wetlands and streams