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Plants and their cell components Flashcards

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Evolution

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Is a change in the heritable characteristics of a population over generations, or the process of diversification by which new species or populations develop from pre-existing forms

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Darwin

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“descent with modification”
* Species are descended from a common ancestor
* Species change over time

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Population Genetics

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A change in population allele frequencies over time
* “modification” is the result of genetic changes

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Phylogeny

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A hypothesis of ancestor-descendent relationships

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Nodes

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Represent common ancestors

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Tips

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Represent the descendants of that ancestor

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Roots

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As we move from root to tip we are moving forward in time

Anchor the plant and collect water

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Vascular Tissues

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They transport water and nutrients upward from the soil to leaves, where photosynthesis takes place

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Vascular plants

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Plants with plumbing

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Synapomorphy

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  • Shared derived trait

A characteristic present in an ancestral species and shared exclusively (in more or less modified form) by its evolutionary descendants

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Synapomorphy in plants

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Tracheids
Vascular tissue
Xylem
Phloem

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Tracheids

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Elongated cells that transport water and mineral salts through the Xylem of vascular plants

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Xylem

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Transports water through the plant

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Phloem

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  • Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant
  • Organic compounds (made from photosynthesis)
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When were xylem first present in fossil records

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mid-silurian

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The first seed trees

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  • Mature trees with good genetic characteristics and high seed production
  • Evolved for the first time at the end of the Devonian period.
  • The earliest member of the lignophyte clade
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Progymnosperms

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  • Extinct seedless vascular plants that may be ancestral to seed plants
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Lignophytes

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Woody plants

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Ethnobiology

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The study of how traditional cultures classify objects and organisms in the natural world

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Cereal grain

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Fruits of grasses (monocots) that can be gathered or cultivated as a food for humans

Human civilization was founded on cereal grains

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What are plants?

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Plants produce oxygen while packaging the sun’s energy into compounds needed for life. They make up more than 80% of the total biomass on earth

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Bacterial cell walls

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Composed of peptidoglycan, a complex of protein and sugar

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Archaeal cell walls

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Composed of polysaccharides (sugars)

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Eukaryotic cell walls

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Found in plants are composed of cellulose, and the cell walls of fungi are composed of chitin

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Archaeplastida super-groups

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Consists of three major groups:
- Viridiplantae (green algae and plants)
- Red algae (Rhodophyta)
- Glaucocystophytes (glaucophyta)

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Species scape

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Each organism’s size is proportional to the number of species in that group

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Cavitation

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When an air bubble enters the xylem

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The Great Oxidation Event

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The time in Earth’s history, about 2.4 Ga, when the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere increased dramatically.

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Cyanobacteria

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Were responsible for the Great Oxidation Event (or the “rusting” of the Earth)

They introduced oxygen into the atmosphere

Are oxygenic phototrophs

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Endosymbiotic theory

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The idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts, and possibly other organelles in eukaryotic cells, were once free-living prokaryotes that became part of the cell through a symbiotic relationship (eating each other)

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Phagocytosis

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A form of endocytosis where cells surround food particles and package them in vesicles that bud off from the cell membrane

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Mitochondria

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  • The energy factories of the cell
  • Has a double membrane
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

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Genetic material in the mitochondria of the cytoplasm of a cell; only inherited from the mother. It is haploid and matrilineal

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Cristi

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  • The inner membrane of mitochondria
  • Is where membrane bound reactions take place
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Chloroplasts (green)

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  • Capture energy from sunlight and use it to produce food for the cell.
  • They are sites of photosynthesis
  • They store chlorophyll
  • Double membraned.
  • Can be different shapes.
  • 5x larger than mitochondria.
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Endosymbiotic transfer

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The process through which chloroplasts and mitochondria relinquish the majority of their genes to the nucleus while not having surrendered the majority of proteins integral to the eubacterial nature of their metabolism

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Basic requirements for a plant to live

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Light, water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, minerals

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What is the product of photosynthesis

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Glucose

39
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What adaptations do plants require to survive on land?

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Land plants evolved traits that made it possible to colonize land and survive out of water. Adaptations to life on land include vascular tissues, roots, leaves, waxy cuticles, and a tough outer layer that protects the spores.

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Epidermis

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Outer layer of above-ground cells surrounded by a waxy cuticle to prevent water loss

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Synanthropic pioneer

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A plant that lives near and benefits from humans and the artificial landscapes they create

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Plant cell key features

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  • Cell wall
  • Plasma membrane
  • Vacuole
  • Cytosol/Cytoplasm
  • Nucleus
  • Chloroplast
  • Mitochondria
  • Endoplasmic reticulum
  • Golgi bodies
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Totipotency

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The ability for single cell to change from one cell type to another and even develop into a whole plant

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Cell wall components

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Cellulose (main component)
Hemicellulose
Pectin

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Cellulose

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A substance (made of sugars) that is common in the cell walls of many organisms. They make up for 30% of the dry weight

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Hemicellulose

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A matrix containing a gluelike substance that holds cellulose fibrils together

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Pectin

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As cells form, the middle lamella (a layer of pectin) is produced first. It is normally shared between two adjacent cells

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Primary cell wall

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consisting of a fine network of cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin and glycoproteins in laid down on either side of the middle lamella

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Secondary cell wall

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When more layers of cellulose are built, it gives more rigidity

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Lignin

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Wood

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Plasmodesmata

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Small channels that directly connect the cytoplasm of neighboring plant cells to each other, establishing living bridges between cell

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Plasma membrane components

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  • Lipid bi-layer with hydrophilic ‘heads’ and hydrophobic ‘tails’.
  • Proteins and protein complexes.
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Plasma membrane functions

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  • Detection, transduction and transport of molecules to and from the cell.
  • Synthesis of cellulose.
  • Formation of intercellular connections
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Vacuole structure

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  • Can take up to 90% or more of the volume of a cell.
  • Surrounded by a membrane (tonoplast)
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Vacuole function

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  • Maintenance of cell pressure and pH.
  • Movement of water in and out of the vacuole is involved in controlling turgor pressure of the cell
  • Store a variety of things such as water, nutrients, or waste products. Larger in plant cells
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Turgor pressure

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Turgor pressure is the force within the cell that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall, no water makes the plant less rigid

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Nucleus structure

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  • Has 2 membranes (each has a lipid bylayer) which constitute the nuclear envelope
  • The outer envelope is connected with the endoplasmic reticulum, especially the rough ER.
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Nucleus function

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  • Contains DNA
  • Control centre of the cell
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Endomembrane system (Endoplasmic Reticulum)

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  • Storage
  • Cell signalling
  • Lipid biosynthesis
  • Movement of molecules and proteins
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Endomembrane System (Golgi Apparatus)

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  • “Post office” packages are dropped of and destinations are assigned
  • Proteins sorted
  • Glycosylated
  • Transfer of proteins
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Endomembrane system

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  • A group of membranes and organelles in eukaryotic cells that works together to modify, package, and transport lipids and proteins
  • It contains the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, vesicles, and the plasma membrane.
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Ribosomes

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  • Site of protein synthesis. It is made up of two sub-units (60S and 40S)
  • Ribosomes genes are some of the slowest evolving genes
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Plastids

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Plant organelles that make/store food or pigments

  • Chloroplasts (green)
  • Leucoplasts (white)
  • Chromoplasts (other than green)
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Leucoplats (white)

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Store starch and oil

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Chromoplats (other than green)

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Stores pigments that are responsible for the bright colors in fruit and flowers (other than green)

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Etioplast

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Plastids that do not contain chlorophyll because they have been kept out of the light for a period of time.

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Primary producer (Autotroph)

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An organism that can synthesize its own food from inorganic sources

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Gross primary productivity (GPP)

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Total amount of chemical energy produced in a given area and time period

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Three main components of plant cell structure

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  • Microtubules
  • Intermediate Filaments
  • Microfilaments
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Cytoskeleton

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Determine cell shape, cell division, organelle anchoring and movement
* Network of thread-like proteins found throughout the cytoplasm

Three main components:
* Microtubules
* Intermediate filaments (not well studied in plants)
* Microfilaments

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Microtubules

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  • They organize the position of organelle
  • Are part of appendages (flagella and cilia) involved in cell motility
  • Made up of α and β tubulin proteins
  • Stacked in 13 rows to form an alpha helix
  • Form a thin, hollow, tube-like structure 15-25
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Intermediate Filaments

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Thinner than microtubules (12 nm in diameter)

Hold the nucleus in position and control nuclear shape

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Microfilaments

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  • Formed from actin protein
  • Organized into helical chains twisted around each other (8 nm in diameter)
  • Controls cell shape
  • Move cell contents around the central vacuole
  • Driven by motor proteins
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Motor proteins

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  • Proteins associated with microtubules and microfilaments
  • Attach to the cargo to be moved (i.e. transport vesicles going from ER to Golgi)
  • These proteins move, release, reattach and move again using ATP
  • Motor proteins are a eukaryotic invention allowing for larger cell size and differentiation

Life on Earth: Plants - BI266 (3 decks)

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