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5.5 Plant Responses Flashcards

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What do tannins do?

A
  • Make leaves taste bad

- Make roots less easy for pathogens to enter

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What is the difference between biotic and abiotic environmental components?

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Biotic=Living

Abiotic=Non-living

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Why must plants respond to their environment?

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It may help them live long enough to reproduce

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What are alkaloids?

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Nitrogenous bases that have physiological effects on animals e.g. nicotine

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What is a pheromone?

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A signalling chemical that can produce a response in another organism.

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What is a tropism?

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A directional growth response in which the direction of the response is determined by the direction of the external stimulus

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What is phototropism and why is it needed?

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Plant shoots grow towards light, enabling them to photosynthesise

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What is geotropism and why is it needed?

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Roots grow towards gravity’s pull, allowing them to be anchored to the soil and take up water and minerals

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What is thigmotropism and why is it useful?

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Shoots climbing plants, such as ivy, wind around other plants or structures for support

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What is a nastic

response?

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Non directional response to external stimuli

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What is a negative tropic response?

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A plant responding away from a stimulus

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What are plant hormones?

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Chemical messengers that can be transported away from where they are made to act in other parts of the plant.

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How can you ensure that hormones only act upon the correct tissues?

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Specific hormones bind to specific receptors with complementary shapes on the membranes of particular cells

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What are the effects of cytokinins?

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  • Promote cell growth
  • Delay leaf ageing
  • Overcome apical dominance
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What are the effects of abscisic acid?

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  • Inhibits seed germination and growth

- Causes stomatal closure

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What are the effects of auxins?

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  • Promote cell elongation
  • Promote apical dominance
  • Inhibit leaf abscission (fall)
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17
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What are the effects of gibberellins?

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  • Promote seed germination

- Stem elongation

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What is the effect of ethene?

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Promotes fruit ripening

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How do hormones move long distances around the plant?

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Mass flow in phloem or xylem

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What is apical dominance?

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Inhibition of lateral bud growth by auxins.

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21
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What does rooting powder do?

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Encourage root growth

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What does rooting powder contain?

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Auxins and talcum powder

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What would happen to the plant if there wasn’t any apical dominance?

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The plant would grow in all directions, becoming bushy, and photosynthesis wouldn’t be efficient enough.

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Why can’t plant cells divide as readily as animal cells?

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They are limited by the cellulose cell wall

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25
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What are meristems?

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A particular place in the plant where there are still groups of immature cells capable of dividing

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26
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Which plant hormone causes stomatal closure at times of water stress?

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Abscisic acid

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27
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What hormone causes seed germination?

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Gibberellins

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28
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What hormone effects leaf loss?

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Auxins

29
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What are expansins?

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Cellulose cell wall loosening enzymes

30
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What pH is optimum for expansins?

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Acidic (low pH)

31
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What plant hormone causes cell elongation?

A

Auxins

32
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What plant hormone causes stem elongation?

A

Gibberellin

33
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How does gibberellin stimulate cell elongation?

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By loosening cell walls

34
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How does gibberellin stimulate cell division?

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By stimulating production of a protein that controls the cell cycle

35
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What is the difference between Auxin and Gibberellin in their growth effects?

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  • Auxin controls tropic growth from nodes and buds

- Gibberellin controls stem elongation (growth in internodes)

36
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What does a DELLA protein do?

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Binds to transcription factors, making them useless. It effectively stops protein synthesis and growth

37
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What are transcription factors?

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Proteins that initiate gene transcription for protein synthesis

38
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How does cutting the tip of a shoot allow lateral growth?

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When the tip with high auxin concentration is cut abscisic acid levels drop and growth is allowed in lateral buds.
(High abscisic acid=lateral growth inhibition)

39
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How does mimosa pudica respond to touch?

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A signal is spread from the touched leaf causing it to quickly fold up to prevent mimosa pudica from being eaten.

40
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What is the function of IAA (Indoleacetic acid) ?

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It moves around the plant to control tropisms, by stimulating cell elongation. It has an uneven distribution so that plant can grow unevenly.

41
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How does IAA (Indoleacetic acid) move around the plant for long distances?

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Phloem tubes

42
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How does IAA help phototropism?

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IAA moves to shaded parts of the shoots, making the cells on that side elongate and the shoot bends towards the light.

43
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How does IAA help geotropism?

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IAA moves to the underside of shoots, making cells elongate and the shoot grows upwards.

44
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Why does covering the tip of a shoot make it grow straight upwards rather then towards the light?

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The tip is most sensitive to light and because the tip is covered it’s not in contact with light so grows straight up

45
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When investigating geotropism, why must you insure your shoots are covered?

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Because if light reaches the shoots this will effect your results due to phototropism.

46
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How do you investigate geotropism?

A

Have planted shoots and place them at different angles

47
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Why is it that in a tall plant, side shoots grow near the bottom?

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The auxin concentration near the bottom is low so it’s effect of inhibiting side shoot growth is not effective

48
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Why do you need a control experiment?

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You need something untreated so that you can compare and see if the effect from the independent variable is not from any other factor.

49
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How to gibberellins stimulate seed germination?

A

They trigger the breakdown of starch into glucose, which the seed embryo can use to respire and make energy to grow.

50
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Why does abscisic acid prevent seed germination?

A

Because it inibits gibberellin action

51
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What does synergistic mean?

A

When 2 things can work together to have a big effect e.g. auxin and gibberellins can work together to make a plant really tall

52
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What does antagonistic mean?

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When 2 things oppose eachothers actions e.g. when gibberellins stimulate side shoots growth and auxins inhibit side shoots growth

53
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What is leaf abscission?

A

Leaf loss

54
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Why do deciduous plants lose leaves in the winter?

A

Helps to conserve water lost from their leaves during water stress- soil water may be frozen

55
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What triggers leaf loss?

A

Shortening day length in autumn

56
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How do auxins effect leaf loss?

A

They inhibit leaf loss

57
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How does ethene effect leaf loss?

A

Ethene promotes leaf loss

58
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What is the process of stomatal closure?

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It opens ion channels which let the water potential inside the cell rise, so water leaves the cell by osmosis- this makes it flaccid closing the stomata.

59
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What is the process for fruit ripening?

A

Ethene stimulates enzymes which break down cell walls, chlorophyll, and starch into glucose.

60
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How can auxins be used in weed killers?

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They make weeds grow long stems and grow too fast which they can’t supply so they die.

61
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What are the advantages of taking cuttings?

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It’s quick, cheap and easy to keep taking cuttings from the same plant

62
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What is a coleoptile?

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A seedling a few days after germination

63
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Where is the zone of max cell elongation?

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Just below the tip

64
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How does auxin increase stretchiness of the plant cell wall?

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By promoting active transport of H+ ions into the cell wall

65
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How do H+ loosen the plant cell wall?

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They decrease the pH allowing expansin enzymes to work at their optimum

66
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How do expansins stretch cell walls?

A

They break bonds within the cellulose fibres, making the cell wall less rigid

67
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What are phototropins?

A

Proteins that act as receptors for blue light, found in meristematic cells

68
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Phototropins become _________ when hit by blue light.

A

Phosphorylated

69
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What is in a vascular bundle from inside outwards?

A

Xylem
Cambium
Phloem

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