plant structure and function roots, stems, and leaves
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Plant Structure and Plant Structure and FunctionFunction
Roots, Stems, and Leaves
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What is a Plant?
• Plants are living things that have roots, stems, and leaves ~ some have flowers
• Plants are made of cells that have cell walls, a large central vacuole, and chloroplasts
• Chloroplasts contain a green pigment called chlorophyll that play a role in photosynthesis
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Photosynthesis6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
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Origin and Evolution
• There are between 260,000 and 300,000 plant species identified to date
• Oldest fossil plants are about 420 million years old – descendants of algae (aquatic)– Cone-bearing plants, such as pines, probably
evolved from a group of plants that grew 350 million years ago
– Flowering plants did not exist until about 120 million years ago
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Life on Land – Adaptations!
Problem• Drying Out• Making Food• Reproduction
• Gravity & Support• Getting water &
nutrients
Solution• Waxy cuticle,
stomata• Formed leaves• Develops spores &
seeds• Bark (cork) &
vessels; cell walls (cellulose)
• Roots & vessels
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Protections and Support - Leaf
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Classification
• VASCULAR: have tube-like structures that carry water, nutrients, and other substances through the plant
• NONVASCULAR: do not have these tube-like structures and use other ways to move water and substances
• Binomial Nomenclature: two word system of naming things, e.g., Quercus alba = white oak
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Seedless Nonvascular Plants
• Don’t grow from seeds; just a few cells thick and only 2 to 5 cm in height; no flowers or cones ~ reproduce by spores– Mosses -Liverworts -
Hornworts
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Nonvascular Plants and the Environment
• Pioneer species: first organisms to grow in new or disturbed areas– As pioneer plant species grow and
die, decaying material builds up; this, along with the slow breakdown of rocks, builds soil ~ as a result, other organisms can move into the area!
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Seedless Vascular Plants• Reproduce by spores• Have long, tube-like cells that carry
water, minerals, and food to cells throughout the plant– Can grow bigger and thicker because of this– 1,000 species of fern, ground pine, and spike
mosses; 12,000 species of ferns!
FERN GROUND PINE SPIKE MOSS HORSETAIL
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Ferns
• Largest group of seedless vascular plants
• Fern leaves are called fronds• Ferns produce spores in structures on
underside of fronds• Ferns that lived 360 million years ago
grew as tall as 25 m, but today, tallest tree ferns are about 3 m to 5 m in height
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Club Mosses• Ground pines and spike
mosses• Have needle-like leaves• Spores produced at end of
stem in structures that look like tiny pine cones
• Endangered in some areas, as they have been collected to make wreaths
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Horsetails
• Stem is jointed and has a hollow center surrounded by a ring of vascular tissue; at each joint leaves grow out from around the stem
• Spores are produced in a cone-like structure at the tips of some stems
• Stems contain silica, a gritty substance found in sand – “scouring rush”
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Importance of Seedless Plants
• When ancient seedless plants died, they became submerged in water and mud before they decomposed – over time, plant material became coal!
• Today, decaying plants are compressed into a substance called peat, which forms from the remains of sphagnum moss – used as low-cost fuel in places such as Ireland and Russia
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Uses of Seedless Vascular Plants
• Peat and sphagnum mosses used for gardening
• Peat used as soil conditioner• Ferns used for weaving material and
basketry• Rhizomes and young fronds of ferns are
edible• Dried stems of one type of horsetail can be
ground into flour• Folk medicines to treat bee stings, burns,
fevers, and even dandruff!
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Seed Plants
• Have leaves, roots, stems, and vascular tissue; produce seeds
• Gymnosperms and Angiosperms• Leaf made up of different layers of cells
– Waxy cuticle– Epidermis (Stomata surrounded by guard cells)– Palisade layer – most food produced here– Spongy layer – veins containing vascular tissue
found here– Lower Epidermis
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Leaf Structure
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Stems and Roots
• Herbaceous stems: soft and green• Woody stems: hard, rigid• Roots have vascular tissue in which
water and dissolved substances move from the soil through the stems to the leaves; roots also act as anchors
• Roots can store food, e.g., carrots, beets
• Absorb oxygen for use in respiration ~ making energy for the plant’s cells
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Vascular Tissue
• Xylem: hollow, tubular cells stacked one on top of the other to form a structure called a vessel; transport water and dissolved substances
• Phloem: tubular cells that are stacked to form structures called tubes; move food from where it is made to other parts of the plant where it is used or stored
• Cambium: between xylem and phloem; produces new xylem and phloem
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Gymnosperms
• Oldest trees alive• Produce seeds not protected by fruit;
“naked seeds”; do not have flowers• Leaves needle-like or scale-like• Four divisions:
– Coniferophyta: conifers-pines, firs, spruces, redwoods, junipers– Cycads– Gingkoes– Gnetophytes
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Angiosperms
• Vascular plant that flowers and has a fruit that contains one or more seeds
• Division: Anthophyta– Monocots – one cotyledon used for food
storage, e.g., corn, rice, wheat, barley, lilies, orchids, grass
– Dicots – two cotyledons; shade trees, fruit trees; petunias; geraniums; snapdragons
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Monocots
• Flower parts in multiples of three• Leaves are more narrow than long• Vascular bundles show up as
parallel veins in leaves• Vascular tissues are arranged as
bundles scattered throughout the stem
• Seeds have just one cotyledon
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Dicots
• Flower parts in multiples of four or five
• Vascular bundles are the network of veins in the leaves
• Vascular bundles occur in rings (annual rings in woody stems)
• Seeds have two cotyledons
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Life Cycles of Angiosperms
• Biennials: complete their life cycles within two years
• Annuals: complete their life cycles in one year
• Perennials: take more than two years to grow to maturity
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Some Products from Gymnosperms
• Lumber, paper, soap, varnish, paints, waxes, perfumes, edible pine nuts, medicines
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Some Products from Angiosperms
• Foods, sugar, chocolate, cotton cloth, linen, rubber, vegetable oils, perfumes, medicines, cinnamon, flavorings (toothpaste, chewing gum, candy, etc.), dyes, lumber
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