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BIOEE 1780 PRELIM 1 FLASHCARDS

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Fossil

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remains or traces of once living organisms

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Lagerstätten

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storage place

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Burgess Shale

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preservation of soft tissues by rapid, burial, anoxic conditions

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Absolute Dating

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determining the number of years that have elapsed since an event occurred or the specific time when that event occurred

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Relative dating

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rocks and structures are placed in chronological order, establishing the age of one thing as older or younger than another

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geologic time scale

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contains the eras and periods within the Phanerozoic Era

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superposition

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in an undeformed sequence, the oldest rocks are at the bottom and the youngest rocks are at the top

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lateral continuity

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layers continue laterally over distances

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original horizontality

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layers of the strata are deposited horizontally, or nearly horizontally and parallel or nearly parallel to the earth’s surface.

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cross-cutting

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any geologic feature that cross cuts across strata must have formed after the rocks they cut through were deposited

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index fossil

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a fossil that can be used to determine the age of the strata in which it is found and to help correlate between rock units

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carbon dating

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Parent is C-14 daughter is N-14. half life of the parent is 5,730
Effective dating range: 100- 100,000

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uranium-lead dating

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Parent isotope: U-235, Daughter Isotope: Pb-207, half life of parent: 71.3 million, effective dating range: 10 million- 4.6 billion.

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potassium-argon dating

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radiometric dating technique that uses the decay of 39K and 40Ar in potassium bearing minerals to determine the absolute age.

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Precambrian and Phanerozoic Eons

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cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, carboniferous, permian

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Eras and Periods within Phanerozoic

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Paleozioc, Mesozoic, cenozoic

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Phylogeny

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visual representation of the evolutionary history of populations, genes, or species

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Tips

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descendents of the ancestor

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Branches

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lineage evolving through time that connects successive speciation or other branching events

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Nodes

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point in a phylogeny where a lineage splits

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internal nodes

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node that occurs within a phylogeny and represents populations or species

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monophyletic

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describes a group of organisms that form a clade

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clade

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is a single branch in the tree of life, each clade represents an organism and all its descendants

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paraphyletic

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describes a group of organisms that share a common ancestor

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outgroup

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group of organisms that is outside of the monophyletic group being considered.

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taxon (taxa)

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group of organisms that a taxonomist judges to be a cohesive taxonomic unit, such as a species or order.

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MRCA

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nodes indicate tge most recent common ancestor and the root is the most recent common ancestor of the whole taxa

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character

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heritable aspect of organisms that can be compared across taxa

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synapomorphy

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a trait that arose in the ancestor of a phylogenetic group and is present in all of its members (shared derived trait)

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homoplasy

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presence in multiple groups of a trait that is not inherited from the common ancestor of those groups.

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convergent evolution

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independent origin of similar traits on separate evolutionary lineages

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evolutionary reversal

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describes the reversion of a derived character state to form resembling its ancestral state

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vestigial

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trait that is less elaborate than its ancestor

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synapomorphy

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trait that arose in the ancestor of a phylogenetic group and is present in all of its members (shared derived trait)

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closely related species

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will have more similar DNA sequences

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distantly related species

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will have different DNA sequences

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Slowly evolving characters

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can show relationships between distantly related taxa

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rapidly evolving characters

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can reveal relationships between closely related taxa

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edges

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line in the tree diagram

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cladogram

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branching order or topology (length has no meaning)

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Phylogram

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cladogram with branch length that reflect the amount of evolutionary change (scaled to reflect the number of nucleotide changes in the phylogram

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Chronogram

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types of cladogram with branch lengths that are calibrated to real time; nodes indicate estimated ages of ancestors

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Synapomorphy

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indicated next to a clade in brackets

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Saurischian Clade

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contains sauropods and the theropods

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Ornthischian dinosaurs

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pubis bone points posteriorly

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Saurischian Dinosaurs

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pubis bone points anteriorly

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Symplesiomorphy

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shared ancestral character or trait, count the number of nodes

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Critical Principle

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any portion of the tree can be rotated around a node without changing teh topology of a tree

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Paraphylyl

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common pattern observed in phylogenetic forensics

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index Case

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source of outbreak

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Bacteria

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are one of the two prokaryotic domains of life. Includes organisms such as E.coli and other familiar microbes

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Archaea

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one of the two prokaryotic domains of life. resembles bacteria, but they are distinguished by a number of unique biochemical features.

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Prokaryote

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microorganism lacking a cell nucleus or any other membrane bound organelles. Have two evolutionarily distinct groups, bacteria and archaea

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Spirochetes

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Chlamydias

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small obligate parasites; unique reproductive cycle; elementary bodies and reticulate bodies; eye infections, STDs

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Proteobacteria

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E coli, Yersinia pestis, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella; gave rise to mitochondria via endosymbiosis.

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cynaobacteria

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photosynthetic; gave rise to chloroplasts via endosymbiosis

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E. coli

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Bacteria and Proteobacteria

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Stromatolite

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provide physical evidence of life (fossils of bacteria from 3.7 Bya)

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All life shares

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RNA or DNA, codons for amino acids, shared biochemical pathways, membrane bound cellular organization, LUCA

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Endosymbiosis for Mitochondria

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1 original proteobacterium and one from eukaryotic cell engulfed it.

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Endosymbiosis for Chloroplasts

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have 2 membranes, one is the original cyanobacterium membrane and one is from eukaryotic cell.

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Primary endosymbiosis

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Glaucophyles, Red algae, Green Algae, land plants engulfed a cyanobacterium

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Secondary endosymbiosis of Green Algae

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gave rise to Euglenid Chloroplasts

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Secondary endosymbiosis of Red Algae

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gave rise to stramenopile and Alveolate Chloroplasts

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Teritary Endosymbiosis

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Eukaryotes with chloroplasts from secondary endosymbiosis of a red algae: dinoflagellates

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Alveolates

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Endosymbiosis: secondary, red algae
Physical Traits: membrane sacs
Subgroups: dinoflagellates, cilliates, paramecium, plasmodium

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cilliates

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Physical traits: covered with cilia
Subgroups: Paramecium

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Dinoflagellates

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Endosymbiosis: teritary, red algae
Physical traits: 2 flagella, one equatorial, one longitudinal
Disease/ Ecology: Red tide, bioluminescence, symbionts of coral

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Plasmodium

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Physical traits:
complex of proteins at the apical prominence
Disease: malaria

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Stramenopiles

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Endo: secondary, red algae
Physical traits: 2 unequal flagella, one with tubular hairs
Subgroups:
brown algae, blatoms

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Brown algae

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Endo: secondary, red algae
Physical traits: multicellular
Disease/ Ecology: kelp forests

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Diatoms

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Endosymbiosis: secondary, red algae
physical traits: silica shells
Exacavates: none expcept for euglends
Physical traits: reduced/ lost mitochondria
Disease: Trypansoma
Sidegroups: Giardia, Euglenids, Trypansoma

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Euglenids

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Endo: secondary, green algae

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trypansoma

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physical traits: single, large mitochondrian
Disease/ Ecology: sleeping, sickness, chagas, disease, Leishmaniasis

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Amoebozoans

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Physical traits: lope shaped, pseudopods
Side groups: Amoeba, slime molds.

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Glaucophytes

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unicellular algae at the base of the plant clade

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“Green Algae”

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terrestrial land plants

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Red algae

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unicellular and multicellular- do not have chlorphyll b or starch which excludes them from green plants

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Green Plants

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Land Plants (Liver worts and Mosses)

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Non vascular land plants

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land plants that lack specialized vascular tissues for the conduction of water or nutrients through plant body. There are three living groups of nonvascular land plants: liver worts, horn worts, and mosses.

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Vascular plants

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large sporophyte, vascular system of phloem and xylem which transport water and nutrients and provide structural support so the plant can grow taller.

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Lycophytes

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has microphyllis and leaves with single vein.
Are now small but they used to be giant trees in the carboniferous

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Ferns

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very diverse forms (trees) and habitats (desert to aquatic)

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Seed Plants

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Plants form seeds and that trait is what the synapormorphy that unites them.

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Gymnosperms

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produces haploid spores and a haploid gametophyte stage that produces haploid gamete

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Angiosperms (flowering plants)

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which fuse during fertilization and form a diploid zygote that develops into the diploid sporophyte

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Stomata

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small opnening in the plant epidermis that permits gas exchange; bounded by a [air of guard cells, the osmotic status of which regulates the size of the opening.

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Chlorophylls a and b

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waxy cuticle

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in plants, a waxy later on the pouter body surface that retards water.

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Alternation of generations

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the succession of multicellular haploid and diploid phases in some sexually reproducing organisms, notably plants

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haploid

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having a chromosome complement consisting of just one copy of each chromosome

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diploid

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having a chromosome complement consisting of two copies of each chromosome. Designated 2n.

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sporophyte

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in plants and protists with alternation of gen, the diploid phase the produces spores.

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spore

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any asexual reproductive cell capable of developing into an adult organism without gametic fusion.

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gametophyte

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in plants and photosynthetic protists with alternation of generations, the multicellular haploid phase that produces the gametes

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gamete

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the mature sexual reproductive cell; the egg or the sperm

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microphylls

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a small leaf with a single vein, found in club mosses and their relatives

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megaphylls

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a generally large leaf of a fern, horse tail, or seedplan, with several to many veins

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seed

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a fertilized ripened ovule of a gymnosperm or angiosperm. Consists of the embryo, nutritive tissue and seed coat.

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enclosed seed

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naked seed

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xylem

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brings water and nutrients up from the roots

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phloem

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distrubites the products of photosynthesis

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pollen

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in seed plants, microscopic grains that contain the m,ale gametophyte and gamete

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double fertilization

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one sperm will fertilize the egg, another sperm will fuse with 2 nuclei to make a triploid (3n) endosperm

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stamen

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a male unit of a flower, composed of an anther, which bear the pollen, and a filament, which is a stalk supporting the anther

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anther

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a pollen bearing portion of the stamen of a flower

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ovary

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a female organ, in plants or animals, that produces ova.

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fruit

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A fruit derived from a single ovary

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primary chloroplast

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organelle bounded by a double membrane containing the enzymes and pigments that perform photosynthesis. Only occurs in eukaryotes

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endosperm

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