Chapter 1, Plant Systematics: An Overview Video Solutions, Plant Systematics

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Problem 1

=What is a "plant"? In what two conceptual ways can the answer to this question be approached?

Charles Kirschbaum

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What are the three major groups of life currently accepted?

Patina Herring

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Problem 3

Name and define the mechanism for the evolution of chloroplasts.

Abigail Schammel

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Problem 4

Name some chlorophyllous organismal groups that have traditionally been called "plants" but that evolved or acquired chloroplasts independently.

Eleanor Behling

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Draw a simplified cladogram showing the relative relationships among the green plants (Chlorobionta/Viridiplantae), land plants (embryophytes), vascular plants (tracheophytes), seed plants (spermatophytes), gymnosperms, and angiosperms (flowering plants).

Josee Pacheco

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Problem 6

Why are land plants treated as equivalent to "plants" in this book?

Gurlin Chudha

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Problem 7

List the many ways that plants are important, both in evolution of life on earth and in terms of direct benefits to humans.

Courtney Burson

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Problem 8

What is systematics and what is its primary emphasis?

Coach Rye

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Problem 9

Define biological evolution, describing what is meant both by descent and by modification.

Camilla Martin

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What is a lineage?

Joanna Quigley

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Name and define the units that undergo evolutionary change.

Jared Adelman

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Problem 12

What are the two major mechanisms for evolutionary change?

Jared Adelman

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Problem 13

What is a functional feature that results in increased survival or reproduction called?

Abigail Schammel

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Problem 14

Name and define the four components of taxonomy.

Ritika Shakkerwal

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Problem 15

Define character and character state.

Alexa Moschella

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Problem 16

Give one example of a character and character state from morphology or from some type of specialized data.

Courtney Burson

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00:42

Problem 17

What is a dichotomous key? A couplet? A lead?

Ankit Gupta

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02:43

Problem 18

What is a scientific name?

Asma Venkitta

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00:42

Problem 19

Define binomial and indicate what each part of the binomial is called.

James Kiss

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02:06

Problem 20

What is the difference between rank and taxon?

Asma Venkitta

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02:06

Problem 21

What is the plural of taxon?

Asma Venkitta

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02:44

Problem 22

Name the two main ways to classify organisms and describe how they differ.

Matthew Mcvay

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Problem 23

Define phylogeny and give the name of the branching diagram that represents phylogeny.

Tate Hilken

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Problem 24

What does a split, from one lineage to two, represent?

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Problem 25

Name the term for both a preexisting feature and a new feature.

Joanna Quigley

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Problem 26

What is phylogenetic systematics (cladistics)?

Tate Hilken

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Problem 27

What is a monophyletic group or clade? A paraphyletic group? A polyphyletic group?

Caroline Jones

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Problem 28

For what can phylogenetic methods be used?

Tate Hilken

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Problem 29

How is systematics the foundation of the biological sciences?

Mishal Gul

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Problem 30

How can systematics be viewed as unifying the biological sciences?

Linda Winkler

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Problem 31

How is systematics of value in conservation biology?

Qudsiya Anis

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Of what benefit is plant systematics to you?

Danielle Ashley

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