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Biology Chapter 1 🪴🌱🍉 Flashcards

1
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The word comes from the Greek root bios which means? And the Greek suffix logy which means?

A

Life

Science of, or study of

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2
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Organs

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Living things

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3
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Habitat

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Where organisms live

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4
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The study of plants

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Botany

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5
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The study of animals

A

Zoology

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6
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The study of the physical structure

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Anatomy

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7
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The study of the function of the human body

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Physiology

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8
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2/3 of the _________ we eat comes directly from ________. And the other third comes from ____________ who eat ____________.

A

Food

Plants

Animals

Plants

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9
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Most plants with __________ will produce fruits and seeds

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Flowers

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10
Q

Trees and shrubs are _________ _________
That live several years and develop a large amount of wood.

A

Woody plants

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11
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A plant with a single tall woody stem that can stand erect without support is called a ________

A

Tree

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12
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A plant that has several low woody stems near the ground and can stand erect without support is a _________ or __________.

A

Shrub

Bush

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13
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Non-woody plants are called _____________ ________ or _______.

A

Herbaceous plants

Herbs

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14
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A ________ can be either wood or herbaceous

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Vine

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15
Q

The dandelion has a ____________ system
In which the main root grows strait down and remains larger than the secondary roots that branch off from it

A

Taproot

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16
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Taproots often store large amounts of food. Grass has a ___________________
In which the primary root remains small and many slender secondary roots, grow from it in all directions

A

Fibrous root system

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17
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Flowering seeds

A

Angiosperms

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18
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About half of the plants known to man are

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Angiosperms

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19
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One of the largest families of angiosperms is the? Also known as

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Composite family

Sunflower family

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20
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These flowers superficially resemble a single flower, but each is in reality a cluster separated, referred to as a

A

Head

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21
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The ones in the center of the head are called

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Disk flower

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22
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Arranged around the disc flowers are?

A

Ray flowers

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23
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One of the best known and most beautiful composite flower is

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Daisy

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24
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What are two most important peppermints in the mint family

A

Peppermint

Spearmint

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25
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What is the mint flowers used for

A

Cooking and landscaping

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26
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Where does the: carrot; celery; parsley; and dill belong to

A

Parsley family

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27
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A plant that develops from a seed and produces new seeds in a single growing season is called?

A

Annual

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28
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During the first year the plant doesn’t grow big and in the second year it stores food to produce flowers

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Biennials

29
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Plants that bloom from year to year and bloom each season

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Perennials

30
Q

What family does the garden rose; wild roses with a five petal design; and fruits; belong to

A

Rose family

31
Q

If they have a pod like body they are most likely from which family

A

Pea family

32
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Pea family is used for?

A

Cooking and landscaping

33
Q

Kudzu

A

A rapidly growing vine that was imported from china

34
Q

Where do most of our vegetables come from

A

Mustard family

35
Q

Where do our commercial foods come from?

A

Mustard family

36
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Members of the pea family are also called?

A

Legumes

37
Q

Plants can only use nitrogen that has been combined into special compounds of nitrogen and oxygen called?

A

Nitrates

38
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What grows on the roots of legumes convert the nitrogen from air into ammonia and nitrates

A

Nitrogen fixing bacteria

39
Q

What provides nitrates to the soil from decomposing plants and animals and lightning contributes small amounts of nitrates to the soil from nitrogen in the air

A

Nitrifying bacteria

40
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The movement of nitrogen from the air into the soil and back into the air is called

A

Nitrogen cycle

41
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The soil convert unused nitrates back into atmospheric nitrogen to complete the nitrogen cycle

A

Denitrifying bacteria

42
Q

Where do the poisonous plants come from

A

Cashew family

43
Q

Poison ivy contains what which can produce a severe rash that lasts for days called

A

Urushiol

44
Q

The seed of an angiosperm plant contains special structures called

A

Cotyledons

45
Q

All of the angiosperm plants can be in catagories called

A

Monocots

Dicots

46
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Petals of 3

A

Monocots

47
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Their leaves are usually long and narrow with a parallel vein pattern and their roots take the form of a fibrous root system

A

Monocots

48
Q

Petals are 4 or 5 and are taproot system

A

Dicots

49
Q

Grasses are called

A

Graminoids

50
Q

Most important family group

A

Grass

51
Q

Three most important cereal crops

A

Wheat; corn; rice

52
Q

Livestock is raised off of what

A

Forage grasses

53
Q

Turf grasses are used for what?

A

Covering lawns

54
Q

Crabgrass is sometimes called what?

A

Umbrella

55
Q

Grass has what type of roots

A

Fibrous roots

56
Q

A creeping stem that grows above ground

A

Stolon

57
Q

Reap around the stem at the base of the leaf

A

Sheath

58
Q

The largest plant

A

Trees

59
Q

What type of plant is a tree

A

Perennial

60
Q

Nearly all broadleaf trees are _________________________

A

Flowering seed plants

61
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Deciduous

A

They loose their leaves during the fall

62
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Evergreen trees

A

Retain their leaves during the winter

63
Q

Bushy head of a tree

A

Crown

64
Q

Main stem of a tree

A

Trunk

65
Q

Disguised flowers

A

Catkins

66
Q

Sugar maple of the northern forest is the source of maple syrup

A

Samara

67
Q

Two most important nut trees in the beech family

A

American beech

American chestnut

68
Q

Valuable not only for its nuts but also for its high quality lumber

A

Black walnut

69
Q

Creamy white structures that surround the flower like petals are actually modified leaves called

A

Bracts

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