Lab 6 Seedless Non-vascular Plants

1. Marchantia (Liverworts) 2. Thallus, Gametophyte 3. Haploid

1. What is this plant called? 2. What is the main body called and is it a gametophyte or sporophyte? 3. Haploid or Diploid?

Moss male gametophyte - antheridial head

Club shaped

Through gemmae/ gemmae cups

How is asexual reproduction in Marchantia taken place by?

Gametophyte (haploid)

Is the leafy part of the plant body sporophyte or gametophyte?

Dependent

Is the sporophyte dependent or independent of the gametophyte?

Antheridium

Label 1 on the left side. Disc shaped and mohawk shaped.

Sperm Antheridium Antheridial head

Label purple balls on the inside? The white outer lining of the purple? The entire structure is called?

Moss capsule New gametophytes

Label seta, operculum, capsule, and spore. Will these spores grow to produce new sporophytes or new gametophytes?

Haploid

Label the seta Are the spores haploid or diploid?

Male - Sperm

Male or female?

Marchanita (liverworts) and Hepaticophyta. Thallus, haploid.

Name plant and phylum. What is the plant body called? Diploid or haploid?

Gemmae cups, Gemmae, and Thallus. Marchantia (Liverworts). Gametophyte

Name the 3 structures seen here, and the plant. (fins on both ends, Stuff in-between the fins, and what this sits on top of) Is this a sporophyte of gametophyte?

Sperm

On the bottom two pictures, What is the big purple things?

Egg Moss archegonium (female gametophyte)

On the left picture, what is 1? What is this?

Sperm Moss antheridium (male gametophyte)

On the right picture, what is 1? What is this?

The antheridium bc the more sperm produced, the more eggs will be encountered.

Out of the antheridium and archegonium gametophytes, which will be produced more and why?

Marchantia, male gametophyte Antheridial head Sperm Haploid

Plant name and what gametophyte is this? Name of the head? What does this head produce? Diploid or haploid?

Egg The underside of the umbrella

What are the red little circles? Where are they located usually?

Eggs Moss archegonium female gametophyte

What cells are made

Sperm Haploid (Moss male gametophyte)

What cells are these? Haploid or diploid?

Water

What do sperm need to reach the egg?

Spores In the female gametophyte

What does the capsule contain? Where would you find the sporophyte in Marchantia?

Marchantia Archegonia (Female) "umbrella shaped"

What gametophyte is this?

Marchantia archegonia

What gametophyte is this?

antheridium

What gametophyte produces sperm?

gemmae, Haploid It is where asexual reproduction takes place To form new plants

What is inside the cups and are they diploid or haploid? What is the function of those structures? These structures separate from the cups for what?

Bryophytes

What is the common name for seedless non-vascular plants?

Gametophyte Haploid

What is the dominant plant body? Haploid or diploid?

Thallus gemmae cups

What is the flat part called? What are the cups called?

Marchantia (liverwort), archegonia

What is the name of the plant and what head is on the right?

Hepaticophyta

What is the phylum?

Moss female gametophytes with sporophytes

What is this

Moss antheridium Sper,

What is this What are the purple long lumps?

Moss gametophyte and sporophyte Gametophyte

What is this What will the spores give rise to?

moss gametophyte, Phylum Bryophyta

What is this and name of phylum

Marchantia sporophyte Remember that the sporophyte hangs upside down from the female gametophyte

What is this?

moss gametophyte

What is this?

Marchantia sporophyte Sporophyte is diploid

What is this? Diploid or haploid?

Marchantia sporophyte

What is this? Where is the foot?

Moss antheridium Sperm

What is this? What is the purple long lumps?

Moss life cycle

What life cylce is this

Meosis

What reproductive process produced the spores?

Egg cells Haploid

What type of cell does this head produce? Haploid or Diploid?

Sperm Haploid

What type of cells do these produce? Diploid or haploid?

Sprophyte

What will this grow?

Capsule, spores

Whats at the tip of the sporophyte and what does it contain?

Moss archegonium

what is this

moss gametophyte Gametophyte

what is this Which part is photosynthetic?

Moss archegonium egg cells

what is this what cells are made