BIOLOGY LAB TEST REVIEW
PLANTS
MOSSES and LIVERWORTS
-classification of mosses and liverworts into the division
Bryophyta
-characteristics of the division (non-vascular, so they don't
have true roots, stems, or leaves; require water for
reproduction - have swimming sperm)
-dominant generation of their life cycle/alternation of
generations (gametophyte generation)
-parts of a moss (rhizoids, gametophyte portion, sporophyte
portion, stalk, capsule, sporangium, spores)
-difference between a male and a female moss
-alternation of generations (gametophyte generation is the
haploid, sexual generation that produces male and female
gametes; sporophyte generation is the diploid, asexual
generation that produces spores)
-sex organs of mosses (antheridia are the male organs - contain
sperm; archegonia are the female organs - contain eggs) - found
on the tip of the gametophyte portion of the moss
-immature gametophyte is called a protonema
FERNS and RELATED PLANTS
-classification of ferns into the division Pterophyta
-characteristics of the division (vascular, so they do have
true roots, stems, and leaves; require water for
reproduction - have swimming sperm)
-dominant generation of their life cycle/alternation of
generations (sporophyte generation)
-parts of a fern (frond, sori, sporangium, spores, rhizome,
fiddlehead)
-alternation of generations in ferns
-sex organs of ferns (antheridia are the male organs - contain
sperm; archegonia are the female organs - contain eggs) - both
kinds of sex organs are found on the prothallus (the gametophyte
of a fern) - the antheridia are near the bottom, and the
archegonia are near the top
