BIOL108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Meristem, Opisthokont, Unikont

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6b. 1 both mosses and ferns "show their aquatic ancestry" because: they lack a water-repellent cuticle, they require water for sperm delivery to the egg, their roots must remain wet at all times, they require water for egg laying. 6b. 2 nonvascular plants (e. g. , mosses) have never evolved to the size of vascular plants. This is most likely due to limitations in: nutrient and water transportation, respiration, nutrient and water absorption, photosynthesis, sunlight. 6b. 3 which evolutionary plant innovation eliminated the need for sperm to swim through water to fertilize an egg, resulting in plants being truly adapted for reproduction on land: independent gametophyte, vascular system, apical meristem, pollen, naked ovules. Characteristics of fungi: closer to animals than plants. In a clade called the opisthokonts : rear flagella (some, common ancestor to opisthokont taxa was an aquatic, unicellular, flagellated protist, sister clade to ameobozoans in unikonta.

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