What is a Plant?
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Transcript of What is a Plant?
What is a Plant?Note Taker Guide
for pg. 300-303
Strange Plants
Welwitschia Mirabilis
English Yew
Why do we need plants to eat?
We need plants to eat
Plant CharacteristicsChlorophyll is the green pigment
that captures energy from the
sun
Plant Characteristics
Photosynthesis is the process plants use to make food from carbon dioxide and energy from the sun
Plant Characteristics
The cuticle keeps plants from drying out
Plant Cell Structure
Plant Reproduction
http://www.deanza.edu/faculty/mccauley/6a-labs-plants-02.htm
Fern
Plants make spores in the sporophyte stage
Plant Reproduction
When the spores of some plants grow, the new plants called gametophytes
Gametophyte StageThe fertilized egg of a gametophyte grows
into a sporophyte
Reproduction in PlantsSporophyt
e
Produce spores
(cloning)
Gametophytes
Production and
fertilization of sex cells
Stage 1
Stage 2
Plant Classification
Vascular Plants have tissues to deliver water and nutrients from one part of the plant to the other
Fern is an example of a seedless vascular plant
Vascular PlantsGymnosperm is a vascular seed plant that does not flower
Plant ClassificationNonvascular Plants are plants without
specialized conducting tissues
Liverwort is an example of a nonvascular plant
Vascular PlantAngiosperm is a flowering plant with seeds
inside a fruit
Origin of PlantsSame kind of
ChlorophyllSimilar Cell WallsPhotosynthesisStore energy in the
form of starchTwo stage life cycle
Blue worksheetWork with the person sitting next to you and
try to complete as much as you canYou will have 2-3 minutes
Blue Worksheet
Have two life stages which include the
Can be Classified as
Gametophyte
It’s your turn!Create a song, skit, or poem Must have at least 3 vocabulary words2-3 minute song or skit2-3 paragraph poemEx: typical day in the life of a plant, Harsh
conditions (Drought, no sun, etc) Photosynthesis, Cell structure
Write down song, skit, and poems, on paper with everyone’s name
Food for Thought“Plants do photosynthesis, a
complicated process, and without plants, we'd all be
dead.”Pamela Ronald