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Understanding Biology

Kenneth A. Mason, Tod Duncan, George B. Johnson

Chapter 26

Plants - all with Video Answers

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Section 1

Land Plants Are Multicellular Autotrophs Adapted to Terrestrial Life

02:40

Problem 1

Why does living on land require adaptations to protect against UV light?
a. Because of the increase in heat associated with higher levels of UV light
b. Because UV light damages DNA and is mutagenic
c. Because UV light promotes evaporation of water
d. Both a and $\mathrm{b}$
e. Both $\mathrm{b}$ and $\mathrm{c}$

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04:45

Problem 2

What does it mean that plants alternate generations during their reproductive cycles?
a. When a mature diploid plant dies, its offspring will be haploid and this pattern repeats generation after generation.
b. All plants have a unicellular generation followed by a multicellular generation.
c. A haploid multicellular gametophyte produces gametes that unite to form a spore, producing diploid multicellular sporophytes, and these generations alternate.
d. Sperm and egg are produced by a sporophyte; they unite to make a gametophyte that gives rise again to a sporophyte.

Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones
Numerade Educator