BIO1201 Botany_Laboratory

Department of Biology
Institute of Arts and Sciences

Course Title: General Botany

Laboratory Exercises No. 14: Vascular Seed Plants: Angiosperm
Lesson: What are the characteristics of angiosperm?

Introduction
In the plant kingdom, the division Spermatophyta is divided into gymnosperms
and angiosperms. The most diverse and dominant group of plants among the two are
angiosperms, also referred to as magnoliophyta. In common terms, angiosperms are all
flowering plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms, by their ability to flower
and produce seeds enclosed in fruits.
Flowering plants dominate the earth's vegetation. Hardwood forests and
woodlands, shrub lands, grasslands, wetlands, deserts, cold high-elevation tundra’s,
and warm low-elevation rain forests have a biomass (weight of organic matter)
composed chiefly of flowering plants. Nearly the earth’s entire crop plants, orchard
trees, garden plants, and ornamentals are flower plants. Coffee, tea, and cocoa
beverages are made from flowering plants; cotton and linen are fabrics made from
flowering plants. Many pharmaceuticals--from aspirin to morphine--come from metabolic
chemicals in flowering plants or are patterned after these chemicals.
Angiosperm is a synonym for flowering plant. It means "seed within a vessel" or
"enclosed seed." The defining angiosperm feature is the enclosure of the ovules within
surrounding tissue called an ovary. The ovary is part of a flower, a structure that occurs
only in angiosperms. The ovary, and sometimes-associated tissues, eventually forms a
fruit, another unique angiosperm structure.

Learning outcomes:
At the end of this exercise the student should be able to:

1. Describe the general features of angiosperm

2. Understand the life cycle of angiosperm
3. Identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce.
4. Describe the three life patterns of angiosperms.

Materials

It is difficult to collect different flowering plants because of the pandemic

situation. However, the laboratory materials for the identification of Angiosperm or the
flowering plants is from the “Bahay Kubo” lyrics song.

In this exercise, you are going to review the different plants from the “Bahay
Kubo” lyrics song. Classification and identfication of flowering plants. You will also be
determining how to distinguish between monocot and dicot.

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1. The following links will give you some information about the parts of the
angiosperm. Diligently view some of the video clips and slides and take notes
of some important facts about the parts of the plants. Tabulate your
observation on your worksheet (Table 1).
• http://www.tulane.edu/~bfleury/diversity/labguide/gymangio.html
• https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/anatomy-of.angiosperm

Group No.: Date Submitted:

Surname/s of members(List you names alphabetically)

Laboratory Worksheet No. 14

Classification and Identification of Flowering Plants

I. Write your introduction (This includes principles, significance of the study,

objectives of the experiment and the passive voice and past tense.
Introduction must be short but packed with relevant content).

II. Procedure:
You will work alone in this activity and review the lyrics of “Bahay
Kubo” lyrics song. This activity is part of the survey classification of flowering
plants.

1. Bahay Kubo lyrics

2. Common name of plants translate to English name
3. Classify the list of plants (Kingdom, Phylum, Division, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, Species)
4. The levels from highest to lowest classification are as follows:
a. Kingdom
b. Phylum
c. Division
d. Class
e. Order
f. Family
g. Genus
h. Species
5. Using this system, the onion, for example, would be identified as
follows:
a. Kingdom – Plantae
b. Phylum - Tracheophyta
c. Division – Magnoliophyta
d. Class – Liliopsida
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e. Order – Asparagales
f. Family - Amaryllidaceae
g. Genus - Allium
h. Species – cepa
i. Scientific name: Allium cepa L.

Note: The binomial name consists of a genus name and specific

epithet. The scientific names of species are italicized. The genus
name is always capitalized and is written first; the specific epithet
follows the genus name and is not capitalized. There is no exception to
this.

6. The list of representative of the plants commonly found in “Bahay

Kubo” lyrics song. Clue – there are 18 type of plants. You will be
responsible for identifying all of them and fill up the Table 1.

Table 1. Fill in the following taxonomic rank of plants from Bahay Kubo
Kingdom Phylum Division Class Order Family Genus Species Common
name
Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliophyta Magnoliopsida Brassicales Brassicaceae Brassica rapa Singkamas

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7. Second, the classification of angiosperms

Division Angiospermae contains two main classes: Class Monocotyledons

and Class Dicotyledons. These two classes can be distinguished in a number of
ways, including: seed, leaves, flowers, roots, and stem vascular tissue. Below is
a list of 15 families under dicotyledons and 5 families’ monocotyledons. Be sure
to see the textbook, as well as other resources form the Google, where
classification of plants and taxonomy will be found. You’ll be expected to
recognize members of this family without the aid of a key.

Table 2. List of Plants between Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons

Class Dicotyledoneae Class Monocotyledoneae

Magnoliaceae Alismataceae

Ranunculaceae Cyperaceae

Moraceae Poaceae

Caryophyllaceae Liliaceae

Malvaceae Orchidaceae

Cucurbitaceae

Salicaceae

Cruciferae (Brassicaceae)

Rosaceae

Leguminoceae

Rutaceae

Umbelliferae / Apiaceae

Solanaceae

Labiatae

Compositae / Compositaceae

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Table 3. Comparison of Monocots and Dicots

Monocot Dicot

Seed

Flower

Leaf

Stem

III. Results and Discussion - Questions/Assessment:

1. What are angiosperms?
2. Why are angiosperms the most successful plants?
3. What are the three life patterns of angiosperms?
4. Why are angiosperms important?

IV. Generate your conclusion . (The conclusion should be drawn only from the
results and should be justifiable answering the
• What conclusions have you reached as a result of this activity?

V. Properly cite your reference: (This should present all citations in the text, may
it be books, web articles or pages, journals, magazines, and unpublished
materials, using APA format.)

References:
1. Bidlack, J.E. & Jansky, S.H. 2020. Stern’s Introductory Plant Biology, 15th ed. McGraw
Hill Education
2. Berg, L. 2008. Introductory Botany: plants, people, and the environment 2 nd
ed. USA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
3. Balbach, M and Bliss, LC. 1991. A Laboratory Manual for Botany. Saunders College
Publishing. Orlando, Florida.
4. Mauseth. J. 2011. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology 4 th ed. Boston: Jones and
Bartlett
5. https://www.academia.edu/31586408/EXERCIS_10Flower
6. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ivytech-bio1-1/chapter/angiosperm
7. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=angiosperm

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