Monocots vs. Dicots, Coevolution and Pollination

Today we took notes on where monocots and dicots fit into Kingdom Plantae.
Click here to see these notes.

Then we made a picture chart comparing monocots and dicots, using the chart in the textbook, p.475. Finally, we found out that

• coevolution is when plants and their pollenators changing over time together, like a wasp and a orchid - the orchid has flowers that look like a female wasp and the male wasp pollinates it; coevolution increases the fitness of both organisms
• pollination is when pollen grains of a plant being moved/taken to the female part of the plant to fertilize it to produce a seed
• wind pollination is when wind carries the pollen
• vector pollination is when pollination occurs by the actions of animals, birds or insects
• pollination of a certain flower by a specific insect may first have begun accidently, but over time their coevolutionary relationship (between the insect and flowering plant) strengthened because it increased the fitness of both organisms
• seed dispersal is distributing seeds away from the parent plant (so that they can grow in a new location)
• plants have a variety of adaptations to help with seed dispersal

In class assignment: Section Review 22-3 (p.481) # 1-4

Homework:

• Write down your experiment project question that you will do your experiment on, whether you will do it on your own or with someone, and if with someone, with whom?
• work on research project - due Wed., April 8
• Ch 22 Quiz - gymnosperms vs. angiosperms & monocots vs. dicots next week (Thursday, Apr. 2)

Click here to see the plant projects criteria sheet.