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1
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The Lives of plants depend on what 4 things

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Sunlight, gas exchange, water, and minerals

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All plants are ______, have cells walls containing ________, and carry out ________ using chlorophyll a and b

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Eukaryotes, cellulose, and photosynthesis

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Botanists divide the plant kingdom into 5 major groups based on four important features. What are the 5 major groups

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flowering plants, green algae, mosses and relatives, ferns and relatives, cone-bearing plants

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What are the 4 important features

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Embryo formation, specialized water-conducting tissues, seeds, and flowers

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5
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What is alternation of generations

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The shift between the haploid phase and diploid phase

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6
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The multicellular diploid phase is known as the ______, or spore-producing plant

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sporophyte

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The multicellular haploid phase is known as the ________, or gamete-producing plant

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gametophyte

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Group of plants that have specialized reproductive organs but lack vascular tissue

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brophyte

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9
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What is the structure in plants that produces eggs

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Archegonium

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What is the male reproductive structure in some plants that produces sperm

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Antheridium

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11
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Vascular plants are also known as _______

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Tracheophyte

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_____ is a tissue that carries water upward from the roots to every part of the plant

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Xylem

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_________ is the tissue that transports solutions of nutrients and carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis through the plant

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Phloem

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A ________ is a plant embryo and its food supply encased in a protective covering

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seed

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What are the two major groups of seed plants

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Gymnosperm and Angiosperm

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The transform of pollen from the male reproductive structure to the female reproductive structure is called _____

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pollination

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What is the structure in seed cones in which the female gametophytes develop

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Ovule

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18
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What is the structure in angiosperms that contain one or more matured ovaries

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fruit

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flowering plants were classified according to the number of seed leaves, or cotyledons, in their embryos. Those with one seed leaf were called _______, and those with two seed leaves were called ____

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monocots, dicots

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20
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Flowers are reproductive organs that are composed of what four different kinds of specialized leaves

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Sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels

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21
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What is the female gametophyte within the ovule of a flowering plant

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Embryo sac

22
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What is the process of fertilization in angiosperms in which the first event produces the zygote and the second, the endosperm within the seed

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Double fertilization

23
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What is the food rich tissue that nourishes a seedling as it grows

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Endosperm

24
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The process of fertilization in angiosperms is distinct from that found in other plants. Two fertilization events take place-one that produces the _______ and the other that produces the ______________ within the seed

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zygote, endosperm

25
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_________ is the formation of new individuals by mitosis. It does not require gametes, flowers, or fertilization

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Vegetative reproduction

26
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Within the roots, stems and leaves of plants are specialized tissue systems. What are these three types of tissue?

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Carry substances between roots and leaves provide support for plant; holds leaves up to sunlight

27
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What is dermal tissue

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protective outer tissue of a plant

28
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What does vascular tissue do

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tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants

29
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What does ground tissue do

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produces and stores food

30
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What are the regions of unspecialized cells in which mitosis produces new cells that are ready for differentiation

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meristems

31
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What are the two main types of root systems

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Taproot and fibrous roots

32
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What is the large primary root called

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taproot

33
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_______ supports a plant, anchor it in the ground, stores food, and absorbs water and dissolved nutrients from the soil

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roots

34
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____ produces leaves, branches, and flowers, hold leaves up to the sun, and transports substances throughout the plant

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stems

35
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How are the vascular bundles arranged in monocots and how are they arranged in dicots

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They are arranged in a ring in the dicuts

36
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The growth of new cells produced by the apical meristems at the ends of a plant is called

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primary growth

37
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As a plant grows larger, the older stems and roots must increase in thickness as well as length. This increase in thickness of stems and roots is known as ___________

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secondary growth

38
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The structure of a leaf is optimized to do what

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absorb and carry out photosynthesis

39
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The area between leaf veins is filled with specialized ground tissue cells known as __________, where photosynthesis occurs

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mesophyll

40
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_________ are small openings in the epidermis that allow carbon dioxide, water, and oxygen to diffuse into and out of the leaf

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stomata

41
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What is the loss of water from a plant through its leaves called

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traspiration

42
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the combination of ________ and _________ lifts water upward through the xylem tissues of a plant

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transpiration, xylem tissue

43
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_________ are chemical signals that affect the growth, activity, and development of cells and tissues

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hormones

44
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to respond to a hormone, a target cell must contain hormone _______—usually proteins—to which hormone molecules bind

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receptors

45
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What is an auxin

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stimulate cell elongations and growth in new roots

46
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Plant sensors that detect environmental stimuli signal elongating organs to reorient their growth. These growth responses are called _______

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tropisms

47
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What are the three tropisms discussed in the book and the environmental stimuli for each?

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phototropism, thigmotropism, and gravitropism

48
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________ is the plant response to the relative lengths of light and darkness

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phototropism

49
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________ is the systematic cultivation of plants

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agriculture

50
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Today, _____ is the foundation on which human society is built

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farming

51
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What are the four crop plant that worldwide most people depend on for the bulk of their food supply

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rice, wheat, soy beans, and corn

52
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What are two important uses of plants that have nothing to do with food

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clothes and medicine

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