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Starch Grain

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Amyloplast

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Parenchyma Cells

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Metabolic Function/Storing Sugars

Pith/Vascular Rays/Cortex

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Primary Growth

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Apical meristem

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Lateral Growth

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Lateral meristem

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3 Parts of Stems and Roots

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Epidermis, Ground, Vascular (Xylem/Phloem)

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Deciduous

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Plant structures that fall off naturally at the end of a growing period.

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Perennial Plants

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Grow for more than two years

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Cork

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Produced by the cork cambium

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What tree does most cork come from?

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Cork Oak (Quercus suber)

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4 Root Functions

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  1. Anchorage
  2. Absorption
  3. Conduction
  4. Storage
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3 Things Roots Have?

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  1. Root cap to protect apical meristem
  2. No nodes
  3. Root hairs to absorb water
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Where to roots branch from?

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Grows from inside, not axillary buds

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Cell Walls

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Polysacrides

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Plasma Membrane

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Lipids and Proteins

Semi-permeable Membrane

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Mitochondria

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Makes product of chloroplast into usable energy

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Vacuole

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Empty space in cell (water)

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Nucleus

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Controls cell and holds DNA/chromosomes

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Xylem Cells

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Move water from roots to leaves and create wood

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Vascular Cambian

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Meristimatic tissue that produces xylem to the inside and phloem to the outside

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Phloem Cells

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Move sugars from leaves to roots

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Spring Wood

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Lighter rings, larger cells

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Summer Wood

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Darker rings, smaller cells

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Bark

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Everything outside the cork cambium

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Lenticels

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Perforations on the stem that allow for gas exchange

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Meristematic

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Undifferentiated Cells

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Branches

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Has meristematic tissue

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Binomial System of Nomenclature

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The system we use to organize all living things

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Who created binomial nomenclature

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Carl Linnaeus (Species Plantarum, 1753)

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Alternate names for plant species

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Specific epithet

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Plant Communities

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As assemblage of populations living in the same area

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Anthropogenic Community

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Human Disturbance

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Biodiversity Hot Spots

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Floristic Provinces

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Mediterranean Climate

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Mild, wet winters and warm, dry summers

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Orographic Effect

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Moist marine air cause precipitation on the western slopes

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Rain Shadow

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Climate is drier of the lee slopes rather than the windward

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Thorn

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Modified Branch

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Sessile

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No Periole

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Stipule

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Small leaves attached below petioles

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Prickle

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Epidermal growth

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Spine

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Modified Leaf

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3 Leaf Functions

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  1. Photosynthesis
  2. Transpiration
  3. Storage
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Stomata

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Oxygen and water leave

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Inflorescence

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A cluster of flowers in a specific arrangement

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Angiosperms

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Produce Flowers

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3 Flower Functions

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  1. Communicate with others
  2. Smell to attract animals
  3. Nectar
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Pistillate Flowers

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Female flower

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Staminate

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Male flower

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Monoecious

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Male and female on one plant but in different places

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Dioecious

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Different plants have different male and female parts

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3 Parts of an Estuary

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  1. Freshwater
  2. Saltwater
  3. Protected
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Brackish

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Salt and Fresh water mix

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Salt Water Marsh

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  1. Upper margin of estuary
  2. Few and small
  3. Mostly in Bay Area
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Halophitic

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Salt Tolerant Plants

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Zonation

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Anaerobic

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Lacking O2

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Aerenchyma Tissue

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Allows for nutrients to go from roots to leaves

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Halophytes

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Concentrate salt in their tissue

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Salt-excreters

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Salt water on leaves

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Hummocks

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Small stabilized dunes

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Blowouts

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When a stabilized dune returns to being an active dune

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Lignotubers

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Plants can re-sprout from this after fire

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Fire Cycle

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10-50 year

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Obligate Seeders

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Forbs

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Non-grassy herbaceous plants

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Perennial bunch grass

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Pre-colonial grasses (native)

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Keystone Species

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Important Species

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2 Parts of a Fig

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  1. Syconium

2. Ostiole

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