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Intro to Botany - Cycle 1 Flashcards

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Botany

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  • Scientific study of plants and plant-like organisms
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Plant

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  • A photosynthetic, multicellular organism
  • Containing photosynthetic pigments called chlorophylls
  • Capable of making its own food (sugar) and storing it, usually in the form of starch
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Plant Processes: Photosynthesis

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  • The process of turning light energy into carbohydrates that can be transported and stored by the plant.
  • 6CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) + 6H2O (Water) -> C6H12O6 (Sugar) + 6O2 (Oxygen)
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Plant Processes: Respiration

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  • The process where carbohydrates are broken down into energy the plant can use.
  • C6H12O6 (Glucose) + 6O2 (Oxygen) -> 6CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) + 6H2O (Water) + ATP (Energy)
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Plant Processes: Transpiration

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Moisture is carried through plants from roots to stomates where it is released as vapor

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Plant Processes: Factors of Transpiration

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  • Warm Temperature
  • Bright sunlight
  • Low humidity
  • Wind
  • Moist Soil
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Plant Cells: Ground Tissue

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Makes up the majority of a herbaceous plant

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Plant Cells: Ground Tissue Types, Parenchyma

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  • Most abundant
  • Alive at maturity
  • Thin primary cell walls
  • Ability to divide
  • Response to injury or changing environment
  • Functions: photosynthesis, respiration, gas exchange, storage of starch
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Plant Cells: Ground Tissue Types, Collenchyma

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  • Elongated living cells
  • Unevenly thickened primary cell walls
  • Function: elastic support
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Plant Cells: Ground Tissue Types, Sclerenchyma

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  • Inelastic support to non-growing plant parts
  • Dead at maturity
  • Thick, rigid secondary cell wall
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Plant Cells: Ground Tissue Types, Sclerenchyma, Lignin

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tough, complex molecule that adds Strength to cell walls

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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue

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Transport water, minerals, and carbohydrates throughout the plant.

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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue Types, Xylem: Tracheid

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  • Long, narrow cells that overlap at their tapered ends
  • Water moves from tracheid to tracheid through pits
  • Pits - thin areas of the cell wall
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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue Types, Xylem: Tracheid

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  • Long, narrow cells that overlap at their tapered ends
  • Water moves from tracheid to tracheid through pits
  • Pits - thin areas of the cell wall
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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue Types, Xylem: Vessel Elements

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  • Barrel-shaped
  • Stacked end-to-end, forming long, continuous tubes
  • Side walls have pits
  • End walls are perforated or absent
  • Water movement is faster than tracheid
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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue Types, Phloem: Sieve Tube Elements

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  • Main conducting cells of phloem
  • Align end-to-end to form sieve tube
  • Alive but no nucleus and little cytoplasm
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Plant Cells: Vascular Tissue Types, Phloem: Companion Cell

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  • Specialized parenchyma cell
  • Transfer carbohydrates into and out of the sieve tube elements
  • Provide energy and proteins to the conducting cells
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Plant Tissues: Ground Tissue

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  • Fills the spaces between more specialized cell types inside roots, stem, leaves, fruits, and seeds
  • Important sites of photosynthesis, respiration, and storage
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Plant Tissues: Dermal Tissue

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  • Covers the plant
  • Herbaceous Plant
    • Epidermis - single layer of packed, flat, transparent, parenchyma cells
  • Woody plant
    • Tough bark
  • Cuticle - prevents water loss
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Plant Tissues: Dermal Tissue, Cuticle

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  • Prevents water loss
  • Waxy layer that coats the epidermis of the leaves and stem
  • Conserves water and protects the plant from predators and fungi
  • Impermeable not only to water but also to CO2 and O2
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Plant Tissues: Dermal Tissue, Stomata

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Pores through which leaves and stems exchange gases with the atmosphere

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Plant Tissues: Dermal Tissue, Guard Cells

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Surrounds stomata and controls its opening and closing

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Plant Tissues: Vascular Tissue, Xylem

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  • Transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to all parts of the plant
  • Water conducting cells are elongated and have thick, lignin-rich secondary cell walls
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Artificial Propagation Methods, Budding and Grafting

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  • Small stems from one plant are attached to larger stems or roots of another plant
  • Ex: Some fruit and nut trees (oranges)
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Plant Tissues: Vascular Tissue, Phloem

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Transports dissolved organic compounds, primarily sugars

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Plant Tissues: Vascular Tissue, Phloem, Vascular Bundle

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Strand of tissue containing xylem and phloem, often with collenchyma tissue or sclerenchyma fibers

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Plant Tissues: Vascular Tissue

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  • Xylem and phloem shuttle minerals and food throughout the plants body
  • Support - lignin strengthens walls of xylem cells and sclerenchyma
  • Enables vascular plants to tower over their no vascular counterparts - important for competition
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction

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  • Type of reproduction that produces identical offspring from a single parent plant
  • Eliminates genetic recombination
  • Advantage: Adaptation to particular environment
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction

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Type of reproduction in plants from its vegetative parts or specialized reproductive structures

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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction: Tuber

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  • New shoots arise from axillary bud on swollen, short, fleshy, underground stem
  • Ex: Potato
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction: Runner

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  • New plants arise at nodes of above-ground horizontal stem

- Ex: Bermuda grass, strawberry plants

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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction: Corm

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  • New plants arise from very short, thickened, underground stem with thin, scaly leaves
  • Ex: Gladiolus
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction: Rhizome

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  • New plants arise at nodes of underground horizontal rootlike stem
  • Ex: Sugarcane, ginger
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Natural Vegetative Reproduction: Bulb

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  • New bulbs arise from axillary bud on very short stem with thick fleshy leaves (only in monocots)
  • Ex: Onion, garli
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Artificial Propagation Methods, Tissue Culture

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  • Pieces of tissues from one plant are placed on a sterile medium and used to grow new individuals in mass numbers
  • Ex: Orchids, potatoes, and many house plants
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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Artificial Propagation Methods

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  • Done with human aid

- Often faster than growing plants from seeds

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Vegetative Plant Parts: Asexual Reproduction, Artificial Propagation Methods, Cutting

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  • Leaves or pieces of stems or roots are cut from one plant, planted in soil and used to grow
    new individuals
  • Ex: Ornamental trees and shrubs (grapes and apples)

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