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Vascular Cone-bearing Plants

Vascular Cone-bearing Plants. Conifers. Seed plants have several advantages over their seedless ancestors. can reproduce without free-standing water, via pollination. Seed plants include cone-bearing plants and flowering plants. pollination occurs when pollen meets female plant parts

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Vascular Cone-bearing Plants

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  1. Vascular Cone-bearing Plants Conifers

  2. Seed plants have several advantages over their seedless ancestors. can reproduce without free-standing water, via pollination Seed plants include cone-bearing plants and flowering plants. • pollination occurs when pollen meets female plantparts • seeds nourish and protect plant embryo • seeds allow plants to disperse to new places

  3. Gymnosperms do not have seeds enclosed in fruit. • “Gymnosperm” comes from a Greek word meaning “naked seed” • most gymnosperms are cone-bearing and evergreen. • pollen is producedin male cones. • eggs are produced in female cones. • seeds develop on scales of female cones.

  4. Cycads are gymnosperms • look like palm trees with large cones • grow in tropical areas

  5. Ginkgos are gymnosperms • only one species alive today, Ginkgo biloba • grown in gardens and used in urban landscaping

  6. most common gymnosperms alive today • includes pines, spruce, cedar, fir, and juniper • Conifers are gymnosperms in phylum Coniferophyta.

  7. Life Cycle of a Conifer

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