2. On a walk through a botanical garden, you notice a small leafy plant that is growing along the edge of a small stream in a shady nook. You hypothesize that this plant is a lycophyte. What information can you gather to test your hypothesis

It can be said that ferns are not related to true mosses, since they look like pine trees and their growth in the ground is supported by trees.

Explanation:

To identify a fern, one must analyze the number of times its leaves divide and it must also be observed that the leaves are arranged. A large majority of ferns have fronds that are divided. It is also necessary to observe if the fern has spores under its leaves, facilitating the correct identification of the fern.

The following information can be gathered to test the hypothesis on whether the plant is a lycophyte.

FACTS ABOUT LYCOPHYTES.

- Oldest surviving lineage of vascular plants.

- First plants with real leave(microphylls 1st evolution)

- monophyletic (group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.)

There are two(2) evolutionary lines of lycophytes

a) small herbaceous plants

b) Woody trees (d=2cm and h= 40cm), extinct global climate change, largely drying.

Sporophyte (2n) is dorminant generation.

i think it is dna, i'm not totally sure but i think it might be.

4.) metal

"-the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back to the environment

-carbon is the essential component of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (which make up all organisms)

-carbon exists in air, water, and living organisms

-producers convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis

-bacteria in the atmosphere cycles through the system in filtration units

-in cellular respiration, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide

-some carbon is stored in limestone (forming one of the largest "carbon sinks" on earth)

-largest carbon reservoir on earth= limestone

-carbon stored in the bodies of organisms as fat, oils, or other molecules may be released into the soil or air when the organism dies

-this may form deposits of coal, oil, or natural gas (fossil fuels, which increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide)

-fossil fuels store carbon left over from bodies of organisms that died millions of years ago

-they are located in the surface of earth, deep within the earth and beneath the ocean floor."