Botany Practice Questions 2

1. Sporophylls (as occur on Lycophytes and Sphenophytes) are ___
2. The sporophytes of Selaginella lepidophylla ___
3. With 11,000 to 12,000 species (or more), the _______ are the largest and most diverse group of terrestrial plants, second only to the flowering plants.
4. Many lower vascular plant species, including most ferns, are homosporous. Homosporous plants have ______ gametophytes.
5. According to the Telome Theory, the sporophyll was derived from dichotomous branching by ______ of telomes.
6. One primitive morphological characteristic shared by Psilotum nudum and the Devonian fossil Rhynia is ____
7. Psilotum, like all vascular plants, has _____
8. The arborescent Lycophytes are in large part (by some estimates 80 percent) responsible for ______
9. The Scale Tree (Lepidodendron) of the Carboniferous Period produced  ____
10. Lycopodium is  _____
11. A “telome” in the Telome Theory is defined as a _____
12. The Telome Theory pertains to the explanation of the _____
13. According to the Telome Theory, monopodial branching was derived from dichotomous branching by _____ of telomes.
14. Certain modern Lycophyte genera, such as Selaginella, are  ____
15. Heterospory is _____
16. Equisetum, in the Sphenophyta _______
17. The gametophytes of Equisetum are  _______
18. Fern spores, like the spores of all vascular plants, are created by ______
19. Fern gametophytes are ______
20. Microphyllous leaves (as occur on Lycophytes and Sphenophytes) are _____

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