2. Introduction
Definition
• Plant anatomy –the study of the internal
structure of various parts of the plant
Applications of plant anatomy
• Taxonomic application
– e.g. problem plants
• Proper authentication of crude drug material
– For safety and quality to be maintained
– Morphology and anatomy of drug source is published
in British and English pharmacopoeias
5. • ORENSIC APPLICATIONS
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Forensic botany refers to the use of plant materials to help solve
crimes or resolve other legal problems.
The first botanical testimony to be heard in a
North American court concerned the
analysis of the wood grain of the ladder used
in the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr.,
and led to the conviction of Bruno
Hauptmann for the crime in 1935.
Xylotomist Arthur Koehler of the United States
Forest Service undertook a meticulous examination
of the ladder and when the case finally came to trial
four years later, offered the first botanical testimony
ever to be heard and accepted in American courts.
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10. LIVING ORGANISMS The five-kingdom
system prevailed in
biology for over 20
years.
Prokaryotes Eukaryotes
Kingdom
Monera
Unicell/simple Multicellular
multicellular organisms
organisms
Kingdom
Protista
Autotroph Heterotroph
Kingdom
Plantae
Saprophytes Ingestion of
Kingdom other
Fungi organisms
Kingdom
Animalia
11. LIVING ORGANISMS
• uring the last three
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decades, systematists
applying cladistic
analysis, including the
construction of
cladograms based on
molecular data, have
been identifying
problems with the five-
kingdom system.
12. WHAT IS A PLANT?
A multicellular, eukaryotic, photosynthetic
autrotroph.
With cell walls made mostly of cellulose
Stored food in the form of starch
Chlorophyll a directly involved in the
conversion of light energy to chemical energy
Chloroplasts contain chl b as accessory
pigment
14. Kingdom Plantae
Bryophytes (Mosses and allies)
mall plants that lack true roots,
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stems and leaves
hey lack vascular tissue
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ater is necessary for the transfer
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of sperm prior to fertilization
ametophyte is dominant and
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nutritionally independent
15. Kingdom Plantae
Bryophytes (Mosses and allies)
Sporophyte is permanently attached to
the gametophyte and dependent upon it
for water and minerals
Sex organs and sporangia are
multicellular and have an outer layer of
sterile cells
Chlorophyll a and b and carotenoids are
present in the plastids
16. Kingdom Plantae
Bryophytes (Mosses and allies)
he first true land plants, a cuticle is
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present
nfluential in soil development by their
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participation in plant succession, assists
in preventing soil erosion
23. Division Psilophyta (whisk fern)
porophyte have scalelike leaves
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(enations)
o roots
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ichotomously branched
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erminal sporangia (synangium, plural
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synangia)
24. Division Psilophyta (whisk fern)
omosporous – with only one type of
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meiospore
ater is necessary for transfer of
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sperm previous to fertilization
oth sporophyte and gametophyte are
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nutritionally independent
25. Division Psilophyta (whisk fern)
Sex organs and sporangia are multicellular
and have an outer layer of sterile cells
• Genera: Psilotum, Tmesipteris
28. Division Lycophyta (club mosses)
• Sporophytes may be homosporous or
heterosporous (two kinds of meiospores)
• Have roots, stems and small leaves
• Single sporangia are borne on the upper
surface of leaves (sporophylls) which are
arranged in the form of a cone or
strobilus
29. Division Lycophyta (club mosses)
• Water is necessary for fertilization to
occur
• The sporophyte is dominant over
gametophyte
• Both sporophyte and gametophyte are
nutritionally independent
30. Division Lycophyta (club mosses)
• Sex organs and sporangia are multicellular
and have an outer layer of sterile cells
• Genera: Lycopodium, Selaginella
32. Division Sphenophyta
(Horsetails)
Sporophytes have roots, stems, and
small leaves
The leaves and branches are whorled
The stem is hollow, jointed and contains
silica
33. Division Sphenophyta
(Horsetails) on stalked,
Groups of sporangia are borne
umbrella-like structures, which are
grouped to form strobili
Sporophyte is the dominant phase
The gametophyte is small and both are
nutritionally independent
34. Division Sphenophyta
(Horsetails)
Elaters are present on meiospores
Water is necessary for sperm
transfer
Sex organs and sporangia are
multicellular and have an outer
layer of sterile cells
Genus : Equisetum
36. Division Pterophyta (Ferns)
The dominant sporophyte usually have
roots, stems and large leaves
Leaves are typically compound and
uncoil as they develop (circinate
vernation)
Roots are typically adventitious from a
horizontal rhizome
Most are homosporous
37. Division Pterophyta (Ferns)
The gametophyte is nutritionally
independent, like the larger sporophyte
Water is necessary for fertilization by
swimming sperm
Sex organs and sporangia are
multicellular and have an outer layer of
sterile cells
38. Division Pterophyta (Ferns)
Sporangia are borne on the lower surface
of leaves or sporophyll
Genera: Polypodium, Pteris, Adiantum
42. Phylum Ginkgophyta
consists of only a single extant species, Ginkgo
biloba.
as fanlike leaves that turn gold
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before they fall off in the autumn.
44. Phylum Gnetophyta
Traits are intermediate between
gymnosperms and angiosperms
With vessels in xylem
The ovules are surrounded by 2
integuments
45. Phylum Gnetophyta
Pollen-producing structures superficially
resemble stamens
Seeds naked; fruits absent
Consists of three very different genera.
50. Division Coniferophyta
Have roots, stems and large leaves
Leaves are usually evergreen needles or
scales
Heterosporous (produce 2 kinds of
meiospores)
Gametophytes are nutritionally dependent
on the sporophyte
52. Division Coniferophyta
Conifer sporophyte
All species of pines are trees
Conifer wood has no vessels
Typically with resin ducts
With sieve cells and albuminous cells in the
phloem
54. Division Coniferophyta
Ovulate (Seed) Cones
Develop at tips of young branches
Two ovules, each enclosing a single
megasporangium, develops on the upper
surface of an ovuliferous scales
An ovule consists of : outer integument,
nucellar tissue and the female gametophyte;
at one end are several archegonia
57. Division Anthophyta (Flowering
plants)
Dominant sporophytes have roots, stems
and leaves
Sporangia borne on stamens and carpels
Seeds develop from ovules which are
enclosed by carpels
58. Division Anthophyta (Flowering
plants)
The gametophytes are very reduced and
dependent upon the sporophyte
Female gametophyte retained within the
sporangium
Wind or insect pollinated
Double fertilization occurs
59. udicots- With 2 cotyledons, flower
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parts in multiples of 4s or 5s, leaves
are net-veined, cambium is usually
present
onocots- With one cotyledon,
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flower parts in multiples of 3s; the
leaves are parallel-veined, a
cambium is usually lacking