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Lecture 7 - Stems - Secondary Growth Flashcards

1
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What happens to the width of a plant undergoing secondary growth?

A

Width increases

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2
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Do herbaceous plants undergo secondary growth?

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They undergo little or no secondary growth

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3
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What plants do undergo secondary growth?

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Woody plants

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4
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Describe secondary growth in monocots and dicots

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secondary growth is common in dicots and is seen in 10% of monocots

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5
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What are the 2 lateral meristems of secondary growth?

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  • Vascular cambium
  • cork cambium
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6
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Explain stem growth of primary growth

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Growth in length of stem

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7
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What tissue pattern is produced by primary growth?

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Basic tissue pattern

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8
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Explain stem growth of secondary growth

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Growth in width of stem

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9
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What tissue is produced by secondary growth?

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Secondary vascular tissue

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10
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What is secondary growth useful for?

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increasing rate of transportation to expanding shoot

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11
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secondary growth increases plant stability which reduces the risk of what?

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Lodging

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12
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What are the secondary tissues?

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Cork, phelloderm, secondary phloem, secondary Xylem

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13
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What does the vascular cambium form?

A

Vascular tissue

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14
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Where does division of the vascular cambium occur?

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At both fascicular and interfascicular regions

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15
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Where is the vascular cambium?

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Innermost layer of bark, between the xylem and phloem

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16
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How does the vascular cambium grow?

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Grow to the inside and outside

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17
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Cells on the inside of the vascular cambium are called?

A

Secondary xylem

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18
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Cells on the outside of the vascular cambium are called?

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Secondary phloem

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19
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What are the 2 kinds of vascular cambium cells?

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  • Fusiform initials
  • ray initials
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20
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Describe shape of fusiform initials

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Longer than they are wide

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21
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What do fusiform initials produce?

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Axial (vertical) transport system cells

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22
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What are the Axial (vertical) transport system cells?

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  • Sieve-tube elements, companion cells, sieve cells, albuminous cells, fibers
  • tracheids, vessels
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23
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What do ray initials produce?

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Radial (lateral) transport system cells (vascular rays)

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24
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What alls are presentin ray initials?

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Parenchyma cells

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25
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What shape are ray initials?

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Usually isodiametric

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26
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Where are ray initials located?

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Extend from secondary Xylem to secondary phloem

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27
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Ray initials: what is the function of vascular rays?

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Pathways for movement of food and water and are storage centers

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28
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What does the vascular cambium arise from?

A

Procambium

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29
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What does the fascicular cambium arise from?

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Undifferentiated cells between the primary xylem and phloem

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30
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What does the interfascicular cambium arise from?

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Parenchyma of interfascicular region

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31
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What does the production of secondary Xylem and phloem result in?

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Formation of a cylinder of vascular tissue

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32
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What extends through the cylinder of vascular tissue?

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Rays

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33
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Is more secondary Xylem or secondary phloem produced during development of secondary tissues?

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Usually more secondary Xylem is produced

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34
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development of secondary tissues: what happens to primary phloem?

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Pushed outward and destroyed

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35
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development of secondary tissues: what happens to phloem fibers?

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They remain intact

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36
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The vascular cambium is __________ in temperate zones.

37
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When is the vascular cambium active and inactive?

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Active from spring to fall, inactive in winter

38
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Activity of vascular cambium: describe the Xylem in spring.

A

Large diameter and thin walls

39
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Activity of vascular cambium: describe the Xylem in summer.

A

Small diameter and thick walls

40
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What does the pattern of vascular cambium activity produce?

A

Annual rings

41
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What factors vary the width of individual growth rings?

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Light, temperature, rainfall, length of growing season

42
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Growth ring width a good indicator of what?

A

Rainfall - wide if lots of rain

43
Q

How can the age of a tree be estimated?

A

By counting the growth rings at the oldest port of the trunk

44
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What is dendrochronology?

A

Dating events and climatic changes by comparing growth rings

45
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What kind of trees do not have annual rings?

A

Tropical trees

46
Q

What is wood?

A

Secondary Xylem

47
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What is heartwood?

A

Wood in the centre of the tree - no longer conducting

48
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What is sapwood?

A

Wood at the periphery of the stem - actively conducting

49
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Another name for hardwoods

A

Angiosperms

50
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Another name for softwoods

51
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What do hardwoods contain?

A

Tracheids, vessels, fibers, parenchyma

52
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Describe the rays of hardwoods

53
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What do softwoods contain?

A

Tracheids, parenchyma, may have resin ducts

54
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Where is bark?

A

All tissue outside the vascular cambium

55
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What does inner bark include?

A

Secondary phloem

56
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Where is inner bark?

A

Inside the innermost cork cambium

57
Q

Inner bark contains ______ tissues

58
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What is inner barks function?

A

Conducts food

59
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What does outer bark include?

60
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Where is outer bark?

A

Outside the innermost cork cambium

61
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Outer bark contains ______ tissues

62
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What is outer barks function?

A

Provides protection

63
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What is the periderm?

A

Dermal tissue of the secondary plant body

64
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What does the periderm replace?

A

The epidermis

65
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Why is the periderm needed?

A

The increase in diameter of the stem causes the epidermis to crack and split open

66
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What is cork produced by?

A

Cork cambium

67
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What happens to cork as the stem diameter increases?

A

Increases in diameter

68
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1 year old stem: what happens to cortex cells under the epidermis?

A

Become meristematic- produces cork cambium

69
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1 year old stem: cork cambium produces what to the outside and inside?

A

Outside - cork cells
Inside - phelloderm

70
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Describe cork cells

A

Flattened and have waxy suberin in cell walls

71
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What is cork cell function?

A

Seal stem against water loss, insects, bacteria, and fungi

72
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At the end of one year, the stem contains:

A
  • Remnants of epidermis
  • periderm
  • cortex
  • primary phloem
  • secondary phloem
  • vascular cambium
  • secondary Xylem
  • primary xylem
  • pith
73
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Stems 3-4 years: a new ___________ forms because the old one dies

A

Cork cambium

74
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Stems 3-4 years: where does the new cork cambium form?

A

Outer region of the still living phloem

75
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Stems 3-4 years: what happens to old secondary phloem?

A

Gets separated from the rest of the phloem by the new periderm and is sloughed off

76
Q

What can damage the vascular cambium? What can the damage lead to?

A

A porcupine girdling a tree breaks the outer bark and they eat the phloem. This can lead to death of the tree

77
Q

What are the external features of woody twigs?

A

Buds, stem buds, bud scales, bud scale scars, leaf scars

78
Q

Describe buds

A

Small swellings or bumps on the stem around a node

79
Q

What tissue do buds contain? What will they develop into?

A

Meristematic tissue that will develop into a stem, leaf, or flower

80
Q

Stem buds are apical (terminal) if?

A

They are at the top or end of a stem

81
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Stem buds are lateral (axillary) if?

A

If in a leaf axil

82
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What are bud scales?

A

Modified leaves that cover the buds during winter dormancy

83
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How do bud scale scars occur?

A

When the bud breaks dormancy in the spring and the scale falls off.

84
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What can bud scale scars determine?

A

The age of a twig

85
Q

What can you see at the locations where leaves were attached?

A

Leaf scars

86
Q

Most monocots __________ secondary growth

A

Do not have

87
Q

Monocot: Some palms undergo secondary growth called?

A

Diffuse secondary growth

88
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Monocot: what do parenchyma cells of ground tissue do?

A

Continue to divide and expand for a long time. Also an increase in size of intercellular spaces

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