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Overview. Embryophytes are the most familiar group of plants. They include trees, flowers, ferns, mosses, and various other green land plants. All are complex multicellular eukaryotes with specialized reproductive organs.
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. The embryophytes ( / ˈɛmbriəˌfaɪts /) are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta ( / ˌɛmbriˈɒfətə, - oʊˈfaɪtə /) or land plants. They are the most familiar group of photoautotrophs that make up the vegetation on Earth 's dry lands and wetlands.
The Embryophyta, or embryophytes (commonly known as land plants), are a monophyletic assemblage within the green plants (Figures 3.1, 3.6 ). The first colonization of plants on land during the Silurian period, ca. 400 million years ago, was concomitant with the evolution of several important features.
Dec 4, 2020 · Contents: Embryophytes (land plants) ←. Origin of land plants. The land plant life cycle. Greek & Latin in botanical terminology. Bryophytes (coming soon) Introduction to vascular plant structure. Leaf structure & evolution. Branching. Protracheophytes & early tracheophytes (coming soon) Lycophytes (coming soon) Trimerophytes (coming soon)
Embryophyte alludes to the formation of an embryo by the zygote, a diagnostic feature for this lineage of plants (e.g., Kenrick and Crane 1997), but a few chlorophyte algae, Volvox in particular, also produce embryos. Archegoniate refers to the archegonium, a sterile jacket of cells around the egg.
PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract Embryophytes (land plants) are distinguished from their green algal ancestors by diplobiontic life cycles, that is, alternation of multicellular gametophytic and sporophytic generations.
Mar 8, 2009 · Abstract. Background. Land plants (embryophytes) evolved from streptophyte green algae, a small group of freshwater algae ranging from scaly, unicellular flagellates ( Mesostigma) to complex, filamentous thalli with branching, cell differentiation and apical growth (Charales).
