The life cycle characteristic of bacteria is termed haplontic. In real life, here is an old fern sporophyte of leather fern with many fronds. By repeated cell division oospore gives rise to the multicellular embryo, which develops into a new fern plant, thus completing the life history. It is a college text for beginning biology students. Their type of life cycle, dependent upon spores for dispersal, long preceded the seedplant life cycle. Plant life cycles developmental biology ncbi bookshelf. Fern plants and their life cycle seedless, vascular. I will discuss the methods and the results of the lab exercise. A great way to incorporate science into your christmas and holiday activities. Mosses produce two types of spores, so they are not homosporus.
Fern spores are catapulted into the air, and the spores develop into heartshaped haploid gametophytes that contain both male and female sex organs. Fern by jean toomer is narrated by a white man from the northern united states. The illustration of the life cycle of the fern is from the excellent book biology, by campbell and reece. To follow the life cycle of the fern, begin at number one below. They do, however transport nutrients through xylem and phloem, like other plants, and they send shoots along the ground to seek out and find new areas. The onegenerational life cycle of the higher animals is diplontic. This term refers to the fact that it encompasses a single generation of organisms whose cells are haploid i. Sphagnum palustre clones, no spore stage ker than\. Within each sporangium, the spore mother cells undergo meiosis producing four haploid spores each when the humidity drops. Activities include cutting, pasting, reading, and writing. Well look at fungus zygotic life cycle, algae, moss, fern, flowering plant including asexual sporic life cycles.
The plant life cycle alternates between haploid and diploid generations. The plant we recognize as a fern is the diploid sporophyte generation. This zip file contains a book to read to the students about the life cycle of a pine tree word and smart board versions included and 3part nomenclature cards, inspired by the montessori method, for the students to pr. On the underside of each frond are tiny, dark spots called sori that contain growths called sporangia that produce and release spores. He refers to a diagram of the fern life cycle interactive to illustrate his clear concise explanation. Also includes fullcolor life cycle charts, montesorri 3part cards worksheets, labeling the parts of a fern, drawing pages, and journaling pages. The life cycle of the fern has two different stages. The leafy shoot of mosses is haploid and thus part of the gametophyte generation. But the life cycle continues with the butterflys young. Mature gametophytes are small, heartshaped structures that live only a short time. The ferns usually bear large, much compounded leaves but occa.
Gametophyte plants are haploid, sporophyte plants diploid. The other part of its life is spent as a small heart. Ferns have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and constitute an ancient division of plants. The rapid life cycle of c fern makes it a useful genetic system, and it has allowed for the generation of several mutant lines with altered development and physiology, which are amenable to inquirybased lab exercises hickok and warne, 2004. The essay will cover the basic process which we used to grow a fern. The life cycle of pteridophytes is a continuous reproductive process that is dominated by the sporophyte sexual stage of the alternation of generations. This means that a diploid generation the sporophyte, which produces spores is followed by a haploid generation the gametophyte or prothallus, which produces gametes. Growth and analysis of the ceratopteris cfern life.
There are two distinct stages in the life cycle of ferns. One generation is diploid, meaning it carries two identical sets of chromosomesin each cell or the full genetic complement like a human cell. In ferns and other more primitive plants, the haploid. Fern, any of several thousand species of nonflowering vascular plants that reproduce by spores. It only makes sense, then, that having racked up so much time on earth, ferns have evolved into over 12,000 different species today. Biol 202 lab 7 cfern investigations genetics in action. Pteridophyte life cycle just as with bryophytes and spermatophytes seed plants, the life cycle of pteridophytes involves alternation of generations. The coal and oil that we use today are actually fossil fuels, formed partially by the remains of those. Dr leon perrie from te papa discusses the main elements of the reproductive life cycle of ferns. For the mainsporophytepart of its life, a fern consists of a short stem or rhizome from which roots and leaves grow.
Pteridophytes are characterized by a life cycle that usually involves an alternation of two freeliving generations sporophyte and gametophyte with the sporophyte the. Heres how the life cycle works and the various ways ferns reproduce. Learn biology life cycle 1 fern with free interactive flashcards. This interactive illustrates the alternation of generations in ferns. Once the egg has been fertilized it grows into a baby fern sporophyte on the prothallus, which soon withers as the new fern plant develops.
Embryonic development is seen only in the diploid generation. Mature ferns produce fertile leaves fronds that carry spores. Each spore grows into a photosynthetic prothallus gametophyte via mitosis. Learn fern life cycle with free interactive flashcards. The resulting sporophyte emerges within 2 wk and forms spores, completing the life cycle within 90 d.
The dominant form of a fern the type that is the most visible is the sporophyte. Ferns have two distinct forms that alternate during their life cycle. The leafy fern with spores is part of the diploid generation, called the sporophyte. Alternation of generations and experimental design. Choose from 500 different sets of fern life cycle flashcards on quizlet. Land plants are typified by a special life style, commonly referred to as the alternation of generations, in which two distinct phases occur defined by the events of meiosis. The advantages of ceratopteris as a model plant system derive from the unique features of its life cycle. The fern produces the spore still diploid, and the cycle continues. The spore will undergo mitosis in order to create many identical haploid cells.
Finally, i will discuss the evidence of the methods and results that were obtained. Science inherited traits life cycles, traits, and variations. This type of life cycle is called alternation of generations. Many plants can reproduce sexually but what does this mean. You need to get 100% to score the 11 points available. Ferns are one of the earliest forms of plant life on the planet, living over 300 million years ago according to the american fern society.
Spores produced on underside of fronds in clusters of sporangia called sori. Fern reproduction is quite different from that of flowering plants. The embryo, however, is produced by the fusion of gametes, which are formed only by the haploid generation. This 18 page unit study helps students learn all about this common but important plant. The focus of this segment is to have students recognize and be able to explain, in a simple way, that ferns are a special kind of plant that does not grow from a seed. The alternation of generations and what it means in a fern s life. Sori plural of sorus are the small dotlike clusters of sporangia on the bottom of a fern leaf. Lycopodium or club mosses have two parts to the life cycle, sexual and asexual. Meiosis is a special type of cell division that produces gametes typically egg and sperm cells in animals or spores in ferns. Female, which develop archegonia at their tip a single egg forms in each archegonium male, which develop. The lifecycle of ferns and their allies is totally unique from other plants. Metamorphosis butterflies change form during their life cycle. The drypoteris fern life cycle begins with a spore.
While many plants grow a mature adult form straight out of the seed, ferns have an intermediate stage, called a gametophyte, which then grows into a mature fern. Diagram of the fern life cycle the fern begins with the haploid stage as a spore. The life cycle of ferns is different from other land plants as both the gametophyte and the sporophyte phases are free living. The fern life cycle requires two generations of plants to complete itself. Life cycle of a fern excerpted and adapted from grays. So understanding the relationship between the two generations is important in the study of plant development. Learn about their physical characteristics, life cycle. The c fern life cycle this multiweek genetics experiment involved sowing spores in nutrientrich agar to observe and analyze the life cycle of the autotrophic c fern. To understand the fern life cycle in depth, its important to understand the history of ferns, at least in a very brief version as members of the pterophyta family of plants, ferns have been traced back to the carboniferous period. I stop and ask them questions as they look at the photographs.
Next i show students this brief visual presentation on the fern life cycle. In the common haircap moss, polytrichum commune shown here, there are three kinds of shoots. The diploid sporophyte produces haploid spores by meiosis, the same process that produces eggs and sperm in animals and flowering plants. Sperm cells are carried to the female sex organ in a film of water, and one fertilises an egg cell. Choose from 500 different sets of biology life cycle 1 fern flashcards on quizlet. This essay will discuss the fern life cycle as taught in biology lab. The above life history shows that it has two distinct parts, the plant itself reproducing asexually by spores and the prothallus reproducing sexually by gametes. A fern polypodiopsida or polypodiophyta is a member of a group of vascular plants plants with xylem and phloem that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The life cycle of a fern is very different from the life cycle of many other plants. Lycopodia are plants that grow in the ground, and sexually reproduce not with pollen and flowers, but with spores. When seed plants produce seeds, flowers are pollinated on the plant. The ferns constitute an ancient division of vascular plants, some of them as old as the carboniferous period beginning about 358. The archegonia and antheridia mature at different times to avoid selffertilization.
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