Assignment task:
Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land.
1. Recall the algal group most closely related to land plants
2. Relate the 4 distinctive traits that Charophytes share with land plants.
3. Discuss the derived traits of plants that separate them from their nearest algal relatives.
4. Describe the main characteristics of the Bryophytes (non-vascular plants) and give some examples as done in class.
5. Relate the life cycle of a moss.
6. Discuss the ecological and economic importance of mosses.
7. Discuss the diversity of seedless vascular plants and give examples as done in class.
8. Relate the life cycle of a fern.
9. State the significance of seedless vascular plants.