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Plant Exam Flashcards

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example of fungi in this group are penicillium and aspergillus

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Deuteromycetes

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This organism grows on a wide variety of hosts, and is responsible for mildew, yeast infections, dutch elm disease

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Ascomycetes

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produces a large egg cell, swims after fertilization, and is responsible for the potato blight of 1845-1847 in ireland

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Oomycetes

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produces large basido spores

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Basidomycetes

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grows in sheets of filaments and is used to produce agar and carrageen

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Red Algae

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The Ancestor to green plants

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Green algae

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simple moss which grow low to the ground and require water for reproduction

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Brophyte

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ferns, horsetails

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Lower vascular plants

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Plants which flower and produce seeds

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Angiosperms

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naked seed plants such as pines

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Gymnosperms

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a group of plants with separate male and female plants which produce fan shaped leaves.

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Gingko

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an ancient plant which resembles a palm tree. There plants were around with the dinosaurs

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Cycads

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Produces one cotyledon upon sprouting. Leaf veins are parallel and flower parts are in multiples of 3

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Monocot

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produces two cotyledons upon sprouting . Leaf veins are in a net pattern and flower parts are in multiples of 4 or 5

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Dicot

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14
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many year life cycle

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Perennial

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woody plants which drop their leaves in the fall, or dryer season.

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deciduous

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a carrot or dandelion produce this type of root, which stores a large amount of starch.

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Taproot

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a highly branched root, which stores less starch

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Fibrous root

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a root found in an unusual place

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Adventitious Root

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19
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where water and minerals are absorbed into the root

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Root hairs

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growing tip of a shoot or root

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Apical Meristem

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Point of leaf attachment

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Node

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a bundle of tissue which is usually dormant but can develop into branch shoots. they are seen in the angle between the stem and leaf.

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Axillary Bud

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23
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runners which send down roots and produce new plants

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Stolons

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24
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the underground stem of a potato plant

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Tubers

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a waxy layer on the leaf surface which prevents the leaf from dying out

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Cuticle

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26
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Where most of the photosynthesis in a leaf occurs

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Palisade Mesophy 2

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27
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regulate gas exchange and are composed of 2 guard cells which swell and shrink in relation to water availability in the plant

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Stomata

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28
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A gas or hormone, which causes fruit to ripen

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Ethylene

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a hormone produced in the upper 4 inches of the shoot, and causes growth by cell elongation.

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Auxin

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hormone that initates and maintains dormancy

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Abscisic acid

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directional growth in a plant due to contact with an object

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Thigmotropism

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the length of daylight and darkness, which effect the growth of a plant the flowering of a plant

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Photoperiodism

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vascular tissue which moves water and mineral up in the plant

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Xylem

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Vascular tissue which moves sugar down in a plant

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Phloem

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a plant movement due to external stimuli

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Nastic Response

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The movement of water molecules through a plant. The chain advances one molecule as water molecule evaporates from a leaf.

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Transpiration

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The sticky top of the carpel

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Stigma

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The slender stalk of the carpel

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Style

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a modified portion of the stem to which flowers are attached

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Receptacle

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the male reproductive portion of a flower

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Stamen

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a saclike structure, which produces pollen on a stamen

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Anther

42
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green leaf like parts, which protect the bud as the flower, develops within

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Sepal

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a mature ovary which contains seeds. the fleshy material helps other animals eat it and disperse the seeds

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Fruit

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the starchy, nutritive material in a speed which nourishes the plant embryo

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Endosperm

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the fertilization of polar nuclei, which will become endosperm and the formation of the plant ebryo

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Double Fertilization

46
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the embryonic stem which support the plant

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Hypocotyl 1

47
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the portion of the embryo which bears young leaves or the plumules

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Epicotyl 1

48
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concertric rings of xylem

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wood

49
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an impermeable layer of lignin and suberin which forces water and minerals to move through root cells, not between root cells

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Casparian Strip

50
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a component of the bark of a woody plant

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Cork

51
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are a symbiotic association of fungi and algae

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Lichens

52
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the male gametophyte of an angiosperm

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Pollen

53
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Ie mushrooms and club fungi

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Basidomycetes

54
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Kelp is the largest form of the algae

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Brown algae

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the space on the stem between the nodes

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Internode

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the force that causes a root a grow down and a shoot to grow up

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Gravitotropism

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a large vertical root, which stores starch

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Taproot

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branched , stores less starch

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Fibrous

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the site of water and mineral absorption

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Root hairs

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Root growing in unusual places

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Adventitious Roots

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Vegetative shoots with leaves, floral shoots and flowers

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Shoot system

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point of leaf attachment

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Node

63
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stem segment with out leaves

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Internodes

64
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found in the ankle between the leaf and stem usually dormant embryonic side shoots

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Axillary Bud

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Tip of the shoot - an apical meristem

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apex

66
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developing leaves compact area of nodes and internodes

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Terminal Bud

67
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evolutionary adaptation that leads to taller growth and increase exposure to light

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Apical Dominance

68
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horizontal stems which grow on the ground surface

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Stolon

69
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Horizontal stems which grow under ground

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Rhizomes

70
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Ie . tulip or onion

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bulbs

71
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main photosynthetic organ

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leaves

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