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1
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Are plants heterotrophic or autotrophic?

A

AUTOTROPHIC!!!

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2
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What are cell walls made out of?

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Plants: Cellulose

Fungi: Chitin

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3
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What do plants store carbs as?

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Starcg

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4
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Bryophytes

A

Lack vascular tissue

Moist environments only because have to absorb water

Tiny

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Examples of bryophytes

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Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts

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6
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Tracheophytes

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Vascular tissue

Seedless plants and seed plants

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7
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What are tracheophytes divided into?

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Seedbearing ones are divided into:

Gymnosperms and angiosperms

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8
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Gymnosperms

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Conifers

Have cones that seeds are formed on

Evergreens

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Angiosperms

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Flowering plants

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10
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What are angiosperms subdivided into?

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Monocots and dicots

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Example of Monocots

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Grasses, wheat, corn, oats, rice and other typical food

Also palm trees

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12
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Examples of dicots

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Oak, walnut, and cherry trees

Daises, roses, carrots

Most flowering plants and trees

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13
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Cutin

A

waxy coating on leaves

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14
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Meristem tissue

A

constantly divides

lets plants keep growing

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15
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Primary growth

A

plants vertical growth

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16
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Zone of cell division

A

part of primary growth

the part of a root tip where mitosis is occurring

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17
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Zone of elongation

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Cells elongate and push the root further down into the soil

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18
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Zone of differentiation

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cells start to specialize

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19
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Secondary growth

A

lateral growth

increase in girth

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20
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Epidermis

A

Covers the entire surface of the root

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21
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Cortex

A

Primarily for storage

Parenchyma cells for storage

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22
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Stele

A

Transport

consists of vascular tissues

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23
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Endoderm

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wrapped tightly with the Casparian strip

selects what minerals enter the vascular system

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24
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Rhizobium

A

Symbiotic bacterium that lives in the nodules on roots of specific legumes

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25
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Taproot

A

Single, large root that gives rise to lateral branch roots

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26
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Adventitious roots

A

Roots that rise above ground

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27
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Two types of adventitious roots

A

Aerial roots

Prop roots

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28
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Aerial roots

A

Trees that grow in swamps have aerial roots

stick out of the water

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29
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Prop roots

A

Grow aboveground

Ex: corn

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30
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Function of the stem

A

support

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31
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Difference in stems of dicots and monocots

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Dicots have a center pith and vascular tissue runs around the center

Monocots have randomly assorted vascular bundles

32
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Function of the leaf

A

Maximize sugar production while minimizing water loss

33
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Stomates

A

Open to allow photosynthesis to take place, but have to close to avoid major water loss

34
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What would happen if stomates were open all the time?

A

Transpiration

Loss of water from the leaf

35
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Guard cells

A

Control the opening and closing of the stomates in response to changes in water pressure

36
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Turgid

A

cell has a lot of water

cell wall bends

stomates open

37
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Flaccid

A

cell lacks water

stomate closes

38
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Dermal tissue

A

Outer protective covering of plants and usually consists of a single layer of epidermal cells

do not photosynthesize

39
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Tichomes

A

spikelike projections that protect the leaf

40
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Vascular tissue

A

transports water and nutrients up and down the plant

41
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Two types of vascular tissue

A

Xylem

Phloem

42
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Ground tissue

A

makes up all the other tissue besides vascular and dermal

43
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Three cells of ground tissue

A

Parenchyma: traditional plant cell

Collenchyma: thick primary cell wall, but no secondary cell wall

Sclerenchyma: thick primary and cell walls (husky)

44
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Xylem

A

carries WATER and nutrients up the plant

has tracheids and vessel elements

does not use energy to transport

45
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How does xylem transport?

A

No energy

Uses transpirational pull and cohesion tension

46
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How does transpirational pull and cohesion tension work?

A

For each water molecule that evaporates cause of transpirational pull

Another is replaced by cohesion tension

47
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Phloem

A

carries SUGAR up the plant

uses translocation which requires energy

48
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Vegetative propagation

A

Asexual reproduction

49
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Petals

A

Brightly colored, modified leaves found just inside the circle of sepals

attract animals that will pollinate the plant

50
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Sepals

A

outermost circle of leaves

enclose the bud before it opens

51
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Pistils or carpels

A

female part of the flower

produce female gametophytes (ova)

52
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Ovary

A

swollen part of pistil that contains the female gametophytes (ova)

53
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Ovule

A

actually inside the ovary where the ova is truly produced

54
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Style

A

thin stalk of the pistil

bottleneck up the center of the plant

55
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Stigma

A

rectangle ontop of the style

pollen lands here

56
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Stamen

A

male part of the flower

consists of anther and fliament

57
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Anther

A

ontop of the filament

where sperm is produced

58
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Filament

A

threadlike structure that supports the anther

59
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How does sexual reproduction start?

A

Pollination: one pollen grain lands on the stigma

Then, sperm travel down into the ovary

60
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Endosperm

A

food for the growing embryo (fruit)

61
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What do the ovule and ovary become?

A

Ovule: becomes the seed

Ovary: becomes the fruit

62
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Hypocotyl

A

part of the seed that becomes the lower part of the stem and the roots

63
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Epicotyl

A

part of the seed that becomes the upper part of the stem

64
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Cotyledon vs. endosperm

A

Cotyledon: food source for seed in dicots

Endosperm: food source for seed in monocots

65
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Gametophyte

A

haploid (n)

fuse to produce 2n zygotes

66
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Sporophyte

A

diploid

produces haploid cells

67
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Are mosses primarily haploid or diploid?

A

Haploid

Gametophyte

68
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Are ferns primarily haploid of diploid?

A

Diploid

Sporophyte

only by a little

69
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Are flowering plants (angiosperms) haploid or diploid?

A

diploid

sporophyte

70
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Auxin

A

hormone

enhance apical dominance (growing upwards)

used as a weed killer, pesticide, and lots of other farming things

71
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Cytokinins

A

Stimulate cytokinesis and cell division

72
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Gibberellins

A

promote stem and leaf elongation

induce bolting (rapid growth)

73
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Abscisic acid

A

inhibits growth and promotes seed dormancy

74
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Ethylene

A

gas

promotes ripening

75
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Tropisms

A

growth of a plant away from or towards a stimulus

Caused by an unequal distribution of auxins

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