Plant Kingdom — Class 11 CBSE Biology revision notes
A 4-page visual revision sheet for Plant Kingdom, written for Class 11 CBSE Biology. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
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Plant Kingdom in one look
algae to angiosperms, one generation always shrinking into the other
Plant kingdom, the five groups
- grouped by whether vascular tissue is present, whether seeds are produced, and whether that seed sits naked or enclosed
- the ladder runs Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, roughly the order each trait first appears
Five groups, one defining leap each
- Algae: simplest, mostly aquatic, no true root, stem or leaf
- Bryophytes: first land plants, still need water to fertilise
- Pteridophytes: first plants with real vascular tissue
- Gymnosperms: first to make seeds, but naked, with no fruit around them
- Angiosperms: flowering, seed enclosed inside a fruit
Algae, key features
- chlorophyll-bearing, a thallus body: no true root, stem or leaf
- primarily aquatic, fresh or marine
- reproduce vegetatively (fragmentation), asexually (spores) and sexually, ranging from isogamous (identical gametes) to oogamous (a large non-motile egg and a small motile male gamete)
- form the base of most aquatic food chains and release close to half the world's oxygen through photosynthesis
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What this Plant Kingdom sheet covers
- Plant kingdom, the five groups
- Five groups, one defining leap each
- Algae
- Bryophytes
- Pteridophytes
- Gymnosperms
- Angiosperms
- Algae, key features
- Three algal classes
- Chlorophyceae, green
- Phaeophyceae, brown
- Rhodophyceae, red
- Bryophytes, the amphibians of the plant kingdom
- Pteridophytes, the first vascular plants
- Bryophyte vs Pteridophyte, the one flip
- Bryophyte
- Pteridophyte
- Heterospory, a preview of the seed
- Gymnosperms, naked seeds
- Angiosperms, flowering plants
- Alternation of generations, the thread through all five groups
- Monocot vs Dicot
- Monocot
- Dicot
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
How CapCompass uses this sheet
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