Topic 8
Cards (24)
- Molecular Biology:
- chloroplast
- genetic markers
- pollinators
- Theophrastus: Historia Plantarum: plant habit
- Michel Adanson (1727 - 1806) familes des planates: natural affinities
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836): genera plantarum: seed cotyledon, corolla characteristics, ovary position
- Augstin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841): Theorie elementaire de la botanique: vascular structure
- George Bentham & Sir J.D Hooker: Genera Plantarum: phanerograms
- polypetalae: free petals
- gamopetalae:fused petals
- monochlamydae: unisexual
- adolp engler & karl prantl: the natual plant families: incorporate evolution
- cronquist: an intergrated system of classification of flowering plants
- takhtajan: flowering plants
- dahlgren: first to use cladistic methodolgy
- rbcL - gene fr RuBisCo: carbon fixation
- Most recent common ancestor of angiosperms possessed the ff. character traits / angiosperm synapomorphies:
- carpel with stigma
- two ovule integuments
- double fertilization with endosperm
formation- pollen sacs 4, paired
- 3-nucleate microgametophyte
- 4-nucleate megagametophyte
- phloem with sieve-tube elements &
companion cells - Angiosperms: amborellales, nymphaeales, austrobaileyales, chloranthales, magnoliids, monocots, ceratophyllales, eudicots
- amborellales: monotypic: amborella trichopoda - dioecious, shrub bearing small, unisexual flower
- nymphaeales - rhizomatoud, aquatic, freshwater plants: Hydateelaceae, Cambombaceae, Nymphaeaceae
- austrobaileyales: illicium cerum
- chloranthales: chloramthaceae: opposite leaves amd small sessioe flowers
- magnoliids: laurales, magnoliales, piperales
- monocts: orhidaceae, poaceae
- cerstophyllales: extandt genus in the ceratophyllaceae
- eudicots: asterceae, fabaceae, rubiaceae