The Shoot System

Question 0

The shoot system includes what structures of the plant and how are the formed?

Answer 0

1. Stems, leaves, branches and flowers

2. By a shoot apex, expect flowers which are involved in sexual reproduction, which leads to fruit and seed formation

Question 1

The shoot system is composed of _________ and is typically located _________ ?

Answer 1

Plant organs, above ground

Question 2

The shoot system is composed of vegetative parts often involved in photosynthesis because?

Answer 2

Of the chlorophyll which contains chloroplasts

Question 3

The shoot apex consists of what two parts?

Answer 3

1. Shoot Apical Meristem (S.A.M.)

2. Several young leaves (leaf primordia)

Question 4

The meristem consists of what two cell types?

Answer 4

1. Initials

2. Derivatives

Question 5

Initials are actively doing what?

Answer 5

Dividing

Question 6

Initials undergo some _________ and are regularly _________ .

Answer 6

Expansion, dividing

Question 7

Initials do not ___________?

Answer 7

Differentiate

Question 8

Derivative cell are ?

Answer 8

Initial cells that have undergone expansion and mitosis, that produce additional cells that will differentiate some distance away from the meristem initials

Question 9

What is an apical meristem?

Answer 9

A meristem that is located at the tip or apex
Example:
1. Terminal bud, located at the tip of the main stem
2. Axillary bud, found in the axil of the leaf at a node
3. Root tip

Question 10

What is monopodial branching?

Answer 10

Branches may form but they do so later from the axillary buds

Question 11

What is dichotomous branching?

Answer 11

Branches form in forks, branching off from one another

Question 12

Apical meristems cause the plant to have increased growth in __________?

Answer 12

height

Question 13

Primary growth is referred to as?

Answer 13

The vertical growth directed by an apical meristem (terminal bud and/or axillary bud)