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Three basic organs of plants |
Roots stems and leaves |
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Plant organs organize into |
Root system below ground Shoot system above ground. |
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Developmental plastisity |
Ability to alter itself in response to environment. |
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indeterminate growth |
A plant growing throughout its life |
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Determinate growth |
A plant ceases growing at a certain size |
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Annual biannual peranial |
1 Complete life cycle in a year or less 2 requiring two growing seasons 3 lives for many years. |
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Meristem |
Perpetually embryonic tissue that allows for indeterminate growth |
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Vascular and cork cambium |
Lateral meristems that adds thickness to woody plants.
1 xylem and phloem(vascular tissue) 2 cork (part of bark periderm) |
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Root cap |
Covers the root tip which protects the apical meristem as the root pushes through soil. |
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Zone of division Elongation Maturation (differentiation) |
Growth just behind the root tip. 1 cells divid 2 cells elongate 3 cell turn into different cell types (differentiation ) |
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Vascular cylinder |
bundles include both xylem and phloem, as well as supporting and protective cells. In stems and roots |
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Leaf primordia |
Leaf develope from this along sides of apical meristem |
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Stomata |
Site of gas exchange in leaf epithelium. |
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Guard cells |
Cells around the stomata which allows for it to open or close. |
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Mesophyll cell |
1 palisade top photosynthesis more cells packed 2 spongy more stomata on bottom where gas exchange takes place prevent excessive water loss |
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Xylem accumulation as |
Wood |
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Early Wood formed in the spring has |
Thin cell walls to accommodate more water |
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Late wood, Summer wood growth has |
Thickened walled cells for stem support |
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Dendrochronology |
Analysis of tree ring growth patterns and can be used to study past climate change |
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Heartwood Sapwood |
1 doesn't 2 does transport |
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Bark consists of |
All tissue external to vascular cambion (Secondary Phloem and cork) |
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Lenticels |
In periderm allows for gas exchange between living stem or root cells and the outside air. |
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Apical meristem |
elongates shoots and roots in Primary growth |
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Roots functions |
1 Anchors plant 2 absorbing minerals and water 3 storing organic nutriants (sugar) |
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Taproot |
System that consists of one main vertical root that gives rise to lateral roots or branches. Only in dicots |
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Adventitious roots |
Roots that arise from stems or leaves. |
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Fibrous roots |
Thin lateral roots with no main root. Only in monocots |
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Root hairs |
In most plants vast numbers of hair like structures increase surface area of roots. |
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Modified roots prop roots |
Holds plant up. support |
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Modified root Storage root |
Used for storage |
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Modified root Strangling Aerial roots |
Allows a plant to grow in the canopy and send roots to the spoil. |
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Modified root Pneumatophores |
Allows root to recieve O2 while under water. |
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Modified root Buttress roots |
Supports larger plants and trees |
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Stems consist of |
Alternating system of nodes, the points at which leaves are attached. Internodes, the segments between the nodes |
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Modified stem Bulb |
Used for wrapping storage leaves underground |
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Modified stem Rhizomes |
Grows just below ground level and allows plant to spread |
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Modified stem Stolons |
Above ground stems that allow for plant to spread. |
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Modified stem Tubers |
Modified storage stem. Has axillary buds which allow for regrowth. |
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Leaves |
Are the main photosynthetic organ of most vascular plants. Consists of a flattened blade and a stalk called the petiole which joins the leaf to a node of the stem. |
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Monocot and Dicot leaf Difference |
Parallel veins Vs Branching veins |
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Modified leaves Tendrils |
Used for wrapping around things to hold on. |
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Modified leaves Spines |
Protect the plant leaf (not thorns) |
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Modified leaves Storage leaves |
Used for storage. |
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Modified leaves Reproductive leaf |
Produce clones of itself Asexual reproduction. |
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Modified leaves Bracts |
Used to attract insects. |
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Types of plant tissue |
Dermal Vascular And ground |
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Trichomes |
Outgrowths of the shoot epidermis and can help with insect defense. |
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Vascular tissue system |
Carries out long distance transport of materials from roots to shoots Xylem transports water and dissolved minerals from roots to shoots 1 way. Phloem transports organic nutrients In both directions. Where needed. |
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Stele |
What is collectively called The vascular tissue of a stem or root. In the root it is a solid vascular cylinder. In the stem or the leaves it is divided into vascular bundles (strands of xylem and phloem) |
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Ground tissue system |
Tissue that is neither dermal nor vascular. If internal to the vascular tissue it is pith If external to the vascular tissue it is Cortex |
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Ground tissue cells specialize in |
1 storage 2 photosynthesis 3 support |
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Parenchyma cells |
Have thin and flexible primary walls Are the least specialized Perform the most metabolic functions Retain the ability to divide and differentiate into other cell types |
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Collenchyma cells |
are grouped in strands and help young parts of the plant shoot. They have thicker and uneven cell walls These cells provide flexible support without restraining growth |
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Sclerenchyma cell |
Are rigid because of thick walls strengthened with lignin They are dead at functional maturity.
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The two types of sclerenchyma cells |
Sclereids Short and irregular in shape and have thick lignified walls Fibers Are long and slender and arranged in threads Both support. |
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Water conducting cells of the xylem |
The two types are ●tracheids and ●vessel elements, are dead at maturity |
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sugar-conducting cells of the phloem |
●Sieve-tube elements are alive at functional maturity, though they lackorganelles Each sieve-tube element has a ●Companion cell whose nucleus and ribosomes serve both cells |