Slide 1 The Plant Kingdom Origins 500- 475 MYA 10 Phyla 4 Basic lifecycles Green algae that evolved onto land Evolved becoming more terrestrial, independent from water Then…

Slide 1 Chapter 29 Plant Diversity I How Plants Colonized Land Slide 2 Land Ho! The Greening of Earth For the first 3 billion years of Earth’s history, the land was lifeless…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Charophyceans Bryophytes (nonvascular plants) Seedless vascular plants Gymnosperms Angiosperms Slide 3 30 nm Slide 4 Slide 5 http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/images/130/Meiosis/Lilium_microsporogenesis/Phragmoplast_Cell_Plate.low.jpg…

Slide 1 Non-Vascular Plants Slide 2 Evolution of Land Plants Land plants evolved from green algae The green algae called charophyceans are the closest relatives of land plants…

Slide 1 PLANT EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY Plants evolved from green algae Molecular, physical, and chemical evidence –Indicates that green algae called charophyceans are the…

Slide 1 How Plants Colonized Land Chapter 29 Slide 2 Overview: Origins of Mulitcellularity Quick look at over all diversity in Plant Kingdom Characteristics of Plants –Special…

Slide 1 Ch 17 Plants Colonization of Land Slide 2 PLANT EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY Plants evolved from green algae –Molecular, physical, and chemical evidence Indicates that…

Slide 1 Chapter 29 Plant Diversity: How plants colonized land Slide 2 Plant Origins Chlorophyta Plantae Ancestral eukaryote Rhodophyta Fungi Diplomonadida Parabasala Euglenozoa…