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Three basic organs of plants

Roots stems and leaves

Plant organs organize into

Root system below ground


Shoot system above ground.

Developmental plastisity

Ability to alter itself in response to environment.

indeterminate growth

A plant growing throughout its life

Determinate growth

A plant ceases growing at a certain size

Annual


biannual


peranial

1 Complete life cycle in a year or less


2 requiring two growing seasons


3 lives for many years.

Meristem

Perpetually embryonic tissue that allows for indeterminate growth


Vascular and cork cambium

Lateral meristems that adds thickness to woody plants.



1 xylem and phloem(vascular tissue)


2 cork (part of bark periderm)

Root cap

Covers the root tip which protects the apical meristem as the root pushes through soil.

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 )

Vascular cylinder

bundles include both xylem and phloem, as well as supporting and protective cells. In stems and roots

Leaf primordia

Leaf develope from this along sides of apical meristem

Stomata

Site of gas exchange in leaf epithelium.

Guard cells

Cells around the stomata which allows for it to open or close.

Mesophyll cell

1 palisade top photosynthesis more cells packed


2 spongy more stomata on bottom where gas exchange takes place prevent excessive water loss

Xylem accumulation as

Wood

Early Wood


formed in the spring has

Thin cell walls to accommodate more water

Late wood,


Summer wood growth has

Thickened walled cells for stem support

Dendrochronology

Analysis of tree ring growth patterns and can be used to study past climate change

Heartwood


Sapwood

1 doesn't


2 does transport

Bark consists of

All tissue external to vascular cambion


(Secondary Phloem and cork)

Lenticels

In periderm allows for gas exchange between living stem or root cells and the outside air.


Apical meristem

elongates shoots and roots in Primary growth

Roots functions

1 Anchors plant


2 absorbing minerals and water


3 storing organic nutriants (sugar)

Taproot

System that consists of one main vertical root that gives rise to lateral roots or branches.


Only in dicots

Adventitious roots

Roots that arise from stems or leaves.

Fibrous roots

Thin lateral roots with no main root.


Only in monocots

Root hairs

In most plants vast numbers of hair like structures increase surface area of roots.

Modified roots


prop roots

Holds plant up. support

Modified root


Storage root

Used for storage

Modified root


Strangling


Aerial roots

Allows a plant to grow in the canopy and send roots to the spoil.

Modified root


Pneumatophores

Allows root to recieve O2 while under water.

Modified root


Buttress roots

Supports larger plants and trees

Stems consist of

Alternating system of nodes, the points at which leaves are attached.



Internodes, the segments between the nodes

Modified stem


Bulb

Used for wrapping storage leaves underground

Modified stem


Rhizomes

Grows just below ground level and allows plant to spread

Modified stem


Stolons

Above ground stems that allow for plant to spread.

Modified stem


Tubers

Modified storage stem. Has axillary buds which allow for regrowth.

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.

Monocot and Dicot leaf Difference

Parallel veins


Vs


Branching veins

Modified leaves


Tendrils

Used for wrapping around things to hold on.

Modified leaves


Spines

Protect the plant


leaf (not thorns)

Modified leaves


Storage leaves

Used for storage.

Modified leaves


Reproductive leaf

Produce clones of itself


Asexual reproduction.

Modified leaves


Bracts

Used to attract insects.

Types of plant tissue

Dermal


Vascular


And ground

Trichomes

Outgrowths of the shoot epidermis and can help with insect defense.

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.

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)

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

Ground tissue cells specialize in

1 storage


2 photosynthesis


3 support

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

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

Sclerenchyma cell

Are rigid because of thick walls strengthened with lignin They are dead at functional maturity.



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.

Water conducting cells of the xylem

The two types are


tracheids and


vessel elements,


are dead at maturity

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