Introduction Flashcards
encompasses the origin, diversity, structure, and internal processes of plants as well as their relationships wit other organisms and with the nonliving physical environment.
Botany
Study the structures and functions of important biological molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.
Plant molecular biology
Study of the chemical interactions within plants, including the variety of chemicals that plant produce.
Plant biochemistry
The secret inner life of plants
Plant cell biology
microscopic plant structure (cells and tissues)
Plant anatomy
refers to the structures of plant parts such as leaves, roots, and stems, including their evolution and development.
Plant morphology
study such as processes as photosynthesis and mineral nutrition to understand how plants function.
Plant physiology
Study heredity and variation
Plant genetics
study of the interrelationship among plants and between plants and their environment
Plant ecology
encompasses the evolutionary relationships among different plant groups
Plant systematics
a sub discipline of systematics, deals with the description, naming, and classification of plants.
Plant taxonomy
is the study of the biology and the evolution of plants in the geologic past.
Paleobotany
The importance of plants
a. Plants as source of food
b. Plants environment impact
c. Plants biodiversity impact
clean up heavy metal pollution on plants
Phytoremediation
general plants characteristics
a. eukaryotic
b. autotrophic
c. multicellular
d. cell walls ( made out of cellulose)
e. chloroplasts
f. store food as starch
The plant’s body is highly o______
organized.
level or organization:
The biosphere, ecosystems, communities, population, organisms, organs and organ systems, tissues, cells. organelles, atoms, molecules
open and closes to regulate traffic of gasses and water vapor, appeared in plants as they moved away from moist environments into drier habitats.
stomata or pores
responds to the environmental _______ for their survival.
stimulus
three domains
Bacteria , archaea, and eukarya
six kingdoms
bacteria, archaea, Protista, Plantae, Animalia, fungi
one cotyledon, floral patterns in three, parallel leaf veins, pollen grain has one pore or furrow, vascular bundles throughout stem’s ground tissues
monocots
Two cotyledons, floral parts in four or fives, netlike leaf veins, pollen grain has three pores or furrows, stem’s vascular bundles arranged in a ring.
Dicots