MOSSES

Mosses are considered non-vascular plants because their conduits to transport the sap aren't well depeloped. They also reproduce by spores (they don't have seeds or flowers) and their parts have different names than flowering plants.

 

LIVERWORTS

Here you can see different species of liverworts. Remember they are primitive plants that live in dark and wet places (fountains and rivers) and don't have real conduits to transport the sap. They reproduce by spores that are formed in a capsule.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS DIAGRAM

KINGDOMS QUIZ

http://m.quiz.biz/quizz-606543.html

 This is a link for a quiz to help you classify living things. There is a mistake, can you find it?

EXAM REVISION (possible questions)

Next Friday (February 13th), you'll have an exam to check what you have learnt in Unit 9, here you are some examples of possible questions:


Who was Linnaeus and what did he invent?

Why is it important to classify living things?

What is a virus?What kingdom is it included in? 

Make a drawing of the different types of bacteria according to their shapes and name them. Why can bacteria be "good or bad"?

Make a mind map of the different types of protists.

Make a drawing of the different types of protozoa and explain them giving examples.

Amazing mushrooms

Have a look at the amazing shapes of some mushrooms

Parts of a mushroom and reproductive cycle

This is a classic mushroom with its typical parts. Mushrooms need moisture to appear, they are the fruiting body of the fungus which is usually under the stem, in the substratum. The spores are formed in the gills, fungi don't always have gills, they can have a different structure to produce spores like the pores you can see in fungi like Boletus sp. They can have all the parts above or just some of them: scales, ring and volva aren't always present, it depends on the species.

 

In the second picture you can see how mushrooms reproduce. They don't have real tissue and form long structures called hyphae. A large number of hyphae is called mycelium. When conditions are favorable the mycelium forms the fruiting bodies, that's what we can see and they're called mushrooms. They produce spores and the cycle starts again.