Exam 2 Flashcards
Which direction is distal?
Away from the base/attachment
What direction is proximal?
Towards the base/attachment
What is primary growth? Adds what? What plants?
Length, adds new organs, all plants
What is secondary growth? Adds? What plants?
Girth, tissue and strength, woody plants
What are meristems?
Areas of active cell division
Primary growth type of meristem? Where?
Apical; tips of shoots and roots
Secondary growth type of meristem?
Lateral; sides of stem and root
Meristems are permanently what?
embryonic tissues
What type of organization are plants under?
modular
What is modular organization?
ability to continually develop new organs and tissues
What types of growth do plants have?
Indeterminate
Where does an ovule develop? What does it contain? When fertilized, it become what?
ovary of carpel; egg; seed
What happens when the zygote divides?
Embryo forms
What is the embryonic shoot?
small bud with first foliage leaves
What are cotyledons a part of? Function?
Embryo, storage of nutrients
What is the radicle?
embryonic root
What is the plumule?
Embryonic shoot with first leaves
Three parts of seeds?
Seed coat, embryo, stored food
What is the seed coat derived from?
parental tissue
What is the hypocotyl? Epicotyl?
stem between cotyledons and root; above cotyledons
What are cotyledons?
specialized leaves
What is the stored food called? Is it always seen?
Endosperms, no stored in cotyledons
Requirements for seed germination? (4)
Water, temperature, light, oxygen
What is the function of water?
seed imbibes water, expands and bursts coat
Ideal temperature for germination?
25 C
Is light required by all seeds?
NO
Examples of scarification?
- External mechanical breaking of seed coat
- Fire
- Animals
- Washout in streambed
Two other examples of requirement?
Cold period, Water to leach out inhibitors
What emerges first during seedling development?
radicle emerges first
What is epigeal? Example?
hypocotyl emerges, pulls
cotyledons from ground, cotyledons unfold,
epicotyl grows, cotyledons drop off
Beans
What is hypogeal?
cotyledons remain
underground
What are functions of roots?
- Anchorage
- Absorption and conduction of water and minerals
- Production of hormones
- Storage
- Asexual Repro
What is the radicle?
Primary roots