BIOL 1108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Photosynth, Lycopodiophyta, Marchantiophyta

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Desiccation is excess water loss; harmful for land plants since obvi not surrounded by water as they were before; land plants have large surface areas exposed so can get more. Co2 and sunlight so need ways to counteract water loss. The vascular plants are those that are able to draw water from the soil and limit water loss from their leaves. Led to success of land plants, mainly the vascular ones. Land plants are a monophyletic group that includes vascular plants and bryophytes. Made up of 4 subgroups: lycophytes, ferns and horsetails, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Can"t pull h2o from the soil and don"t produce roots. The first plant group to diverge (namely the mosses and then the liverworts and hornworts) Able to survive b/c they exhibit desiccation tolerance, a suite of biochemical traits that allows their cells to survive extreme dehydration without damage to membranes or macromolecules; when water becomes normal lvl then can continue photosynth.

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