BIO 1500

Angiosperms and Reproductive Development

Study Guide

1. What are angiosperms? To what phylum do they belong?

2. What characteristics are used to distinguish eudicots from monocots?
3. What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?
4. What does fertilization (syngamy) mean?
5. What does alternation of generations mean?
6. Be able to name and describe the functions of the 4 whorls of a flower.
7. What is the difference between complete vs. incomplete flowers?
8. What is the stamen? What does it consist of? What are the functions of the anther
and filament?
9. What is the carpel? What does it consist of? What are the functions of the stigma,
style, ovary, and ovule?
10. What is the difference between simple pistil vs. compound pistil?
11. What is the function of the receptacle? What is the pedicel?
12. What is the difference between perfect and imperfect flowers?
13. What is the difference between staminate and pistillate flowers?
14. What is the difference between monoecious and dioecious plants?
15. Be able to describe the formation of female gametophyte (embryo sac) in angiosperms.
Know the ploidy (haploid or diploid) level of each structure.
16. Be able to describe the formation of male gametophyte (pollen grains) in angiosperms.
Know the ploidy level of each structure?
17. What are the fates of the tube and generative cells?
18. What is the purpose of the pollen tube?
19. What does double fertilization mean?
20. How does endosperm form? What is its function?
21. What do you know about wind-pollinated flowers?
22. What types of symmetry do plants have?
23. What is the difference between hypogynous and epigynous flowers?
24. How can one distinguish between monocot vs. eudicot flowers?
25. What does inflorescence mean?