Slide 1 Kingdom: Plantae Slide 2 Characteristics of Plants Eukaryotic Multicellular Carry out photosynthesis Cells have a cell wall made of cellulose Mostly land dwelling…

Slide 1 I.Flowering Plants (Angiosperms) B.Salt Marsh Plants Cord grass (Spartina)Cord grass (Spartina) Salt tolerant terrestrial plantsSalt tolerant terrestrial plants Salt…

Slide 1 Plant Evolution Plants evolved about 475 million years ago from charophytes (a group of green algae) –Most modern plants are photoautotrophs on land Slide 2 Plant…

Slide 1 Plant Diversity and Life Cycles Slide 2 Plant Kingdom Characteristics 1)Multicellular 2)Eukaryotic 3)Cell Walls 4)Autotrophic Slide 3 Slide 4 Question: What adaptations…

Slide 1 THREATS TO GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY The worst thing that can happen during the 1980s is not energy depletion, economic collapse, limited nuclear war, or conquest by a…

Slide 1 By Dane and Patrick Slide 2 Early Cretaceous Epoch - from 145.5 – 127 million (Neocomian) years ago. Middle Cretaceous Epoch – from 127 – 89 million years (Gallic)…

Slide 1 Bee Biology Everything You Need to Know And A Bunch of Stuff You Probably Don’t Slide 2 Ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms 202-245 million…

Slide 1 Kingdom PLANTAE Multi-celled / eukaryotic Autotrophic / chloroplast Cell wall - cellulose Slide 2 Kingdom PLANTAE Plant Evolution Slide 3 Plants: Alternation of Generation…

Threats to Global Biodiversity We wish to know: What is biodiversity? Why is it important? What are the threats to biodiversity? How can we estimate rates of species loss?…

Slide 1 In grouping species by kingdom, biologists consider several key questions: 18.5 Five Kingdoms (cont.) Is the organism a prokaryote or a eukaryote? Is it an autotroph…