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What is the primary plant body?

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Roots
Shoots-stems and leaves

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Plants shoots are _____

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Modular

-repetitive units
-photomere: internode, node, leaf, bud

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Meristems

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Clump of small, unspecialized cells
-dense cytoplasm
-large nuclei
-repeated cell divisions

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Apical meristem

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-near tips of stems and roots
-elongation of roots and shoots
-produce primary tissues to make plant body
-root apical meristem protected by a cap
-shoot apical meristem protected by leaf primordia or bent hypocotyl

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Lateral meristems

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Increase girth
Not present in all plants

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Intercalary meristems

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In stem internodes
Many monocots, horsetails

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Primary growth

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-result of cell division at the apical meristem
-elongation of organ (stem, root)

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Secondary growth

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-result of cell division at lateral meristem
-increase in girth

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Lateral meristem types

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Vascular cambium: secondary xylem and phloem

Cork cambium: cork cells of outer bark in woody species

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Periderm is made up of

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Cork=phellem
Cork cambium
Phelloderm

Part of the dermal tissue system

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Phellogen is the same as

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Cork cambium

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Root functions

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-anchorage
-absorption of water and minerals

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Zones of roots

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-zone of cell division
-Zone of elongation
-Zone of maturation

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Root cap

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-several layers of cells
-protects root apical meristem as root pushes through soil
-border cells: old cells sloughed off, replaced by new cells
-mucigel produced by outer layer
-new root cap produced when existing cap is removed
-gravitropism, hydrotropism

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Zone of cell division

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-cell divide every 12-36 hours
-apical meristem daughter cells divide into Protoderm, Procambium, and ground meristem tissues

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Zone of Elongation

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-roots lengthen because cells produced by primary meristems grow more on length than width

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Zone of maturation

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-cells differentiate into epidermal cells, some with a root hair

-cortex produced by parenchyma cells. Inner boundary differentiated into endodermis Surrounded by casparian strips composed of suberin

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Endomyccorhizae and Ectomycorrhizae

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Endo-thin mantle of hyphae that penetrate the root cortex

Ecto-thick mantle of hyphae that form a sheath outside the root

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Quiescent Center

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Dormant Center of meristem

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How can plant elongate if it has a rigid cell wall?

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Cell wall expands with use of enzymes to acidify walls of cellulose

Enzyme-expansins

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Arbuscule

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Invaginations to create more surface area with Plasmodesmata in mycorrhizae

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What do fungi get from plants and what do plants get from fungi

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P and N to plant root

Carbs to fungi

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What do plants release to attract fungi

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Hormones

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Stele

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All tissues interior to the endodermis

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Pericycle
Cells immediately adjacent and interior to the endodermis
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Monocot stele arrangement in roots
-primary xylem in discrete vascular bundles -ring surrounds pith -poem between bundles
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Eudicots stele arrangement in roots
-Xylem x-shaped -Phloem in discrete groups of cells between arms
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Where do lateral roots originate
Pericycle
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Casparian strip
Integral band-like portion of primary wall and middle lamella impregnated with suberin and lignin
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Apoplasic, symplasitc and trans cellular roots
Between cell walls Go through Plasmodesmata into cells and then transfer through cells following the outside portion of inner cell Go through cells
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Taproot be fibrous root
Single large root with smaller branch roots Many small, thin roots
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Modified roots
-aerial (prop, climbing, absorbing) -pneumatophores -contractile -storage -buttress -parasitic
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Rhizosphere
The volume of soil around living plant roots that is influenced by root activity
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Monocot primary root
Short lived, and instead the main root system develops from roots that arise from the stem (adventitious roots). The lateral roots off this give rise to the fibrous root system
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During growth of roots, they follow the path of ______
Least resistance Often filling in areas made by dead roots
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Root cap areas
Columnella-central column of cells. Site that perceives gravity (gravitropism) and water potential gradients (hydrotropism) Lateral root cap-lateral portion
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Lenticels
Spongy areas in the periderm with numerous intercellular spaces that permit the passage of air
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Stems function
Support Conduction
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Shoot apical meristem purpose
-initiates stem tissues -intermittently produces primordial or leaves, other shoots or flowers -node:region of leaf attachment -internode:stem between two nodes
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Stele variation in monocot and eudicot stems
In eudicots, vascular cambium develops between primary xylem and phloem, and vascular bundles are in circle I’m monocots, vascular bundles are completely arranged
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Shoot apical meristems can divide in which ways
-anticlinal: horizontal -tunica -periclinal: vertical -corpus
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Area of slow and fast Division in shoot apical meristem
Slow:Central mother cell zone, and corpus Fast: Peripheral or tunica
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Vascular cambium cells divide ______, producing ______
Indefinitely Secondary tissues -wood in trees (secondary xylem) -cork cambium: in outer cortex of woody eudicots and gymnosperms.
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Cork tissues impregnated with _____ constitute outer bark
Suberin
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Cork tissue also produces _____ cells (lenticels) which permit continuance of gas exchange
Unsuberized
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Modified stem types
-storage: bulbs, corms, tubers -growth/asexual reproduction: rhizomes, runner and stolons -anchorage/climbing: tendrils -photosynthesis/storage: Cladodes or cladophylls
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What are leaves
-lateral appendages that share four defining features that have: vascularization, determinate growth, bilateral symmetry (abaxial/adaxial polarity), definite arrangement (Phyllotaxis)
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Despite shared characteristics of leaves, leaves are not ______ across all vascular plants
Homologous
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Leaf morphological groups
-microphylls: have one vein that does not leave a gap when it branches from the vascular cylinder of the stem. Characteristics of lycophytes -megaphylls: have several veins that leave a gap when they branch from the vascular cylinder of the stem
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Leaf development steps
1. Leaf buttress: bulge on flank of SAM, Elongation of cells in leaf buttress 2. Leaf primordium 3. Petiole 4. Blade
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Simple vs compound leaves
Simple: undivided blades Compound: blade divided into leaflets -pinnately compound: leaflets arranged in pairs along common axis -palmately compound: leaflets radiate out from common point
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Leaf arrangement types
Alternate: one leaf per node Opposite: two leaves per node Whorl:circle of leaves at same level
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Two functions of stems
Support Conduction
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Leaf primordia develop into ____ Bud primordia develop into
Leaves Lateral shoots
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Intercalart meristem
A localized meristem region in the elongating internode
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Interfasicular regions
Vascular bundles separated by narrow parenchymous regions
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Open vs closed vascular bundles
Open: bundles that do give rise to a cambium Closed: bundles that do not become cambium. Surrounded by sclerenchyma
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Leaf traces
The extensions from the vascular system in the stem towards the leaves
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Leaf trace gaps
Wide Interfasicular regions, or gaps of ground tissue, in the vascular cylinder located above the level where leaf traces diverge toward the leaves
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Stem bundle
Vascular bundle in stem
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Sympodium
A stem bundle and it’s associated leaf traces
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In which cells are there more chloroplasts: spongy or palisade
Palisade
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Sun leaves vs shade leaves
Sun leaves: -smaller -thicker (more palisade) -more extensive vascular system -thicker epidermal walls -more surface area of the mesophyll
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Abscission
Normal separation of the leaf from the stem
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Leaf scar
After leaf falls
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Megaphylls have ____ but microphylls done
vascular gap
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Blade is also known as a
Lamina
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Areoles
Smallest irrigated unit in a leaf
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Inflorescence
Flowering branch
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Floating leaves have more stomata on what surface? Non aquatic plants have more stomata on which side?
Adaxial Abaxial
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Palisade layer has more _______ Spongy layer deals more in the ______
Light reactions Calvin cycle
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Which surface of the leaf has more cuticle
Adaxial
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Trichomes and boundary layer
Increase boundary layer to increase humidity and decrease the vast temp gradient
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Spines can be modified ____ or ____
Stems or leaves
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Epidermis functions
-cuticle -gas exchange -trichomes -protection
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Mesophyll differences in Eudicots and monocots
Eudicots have palisade and spongy Monocots have spongy

Vascular plants (11 decks)

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