Biology Mid Term Ch. 22-25

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Characteristics of plants

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Multicellular (embryos), Eukaryotic, Photosynthesize, cell wall made of cellulose

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W/o plants, animals _____?

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wouldn't have shade, shelter, and oxygen

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How do Bryophytes (no vascular tissue) conduct H2O?

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They draw up water by osmosis only a few centimeters above the ground

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Rhizoids?

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long, thin cells that anchor plants in the ground and absorb water and minerals

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Antheridia

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Sperm producing structures of a bryophyte

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Archegonia

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Egg producing structure of a bryophyte

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Xylem and Phloem

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2 types of vascular tissue

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Bryophytes don't have what kind of tissue?

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Vascular

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Club Mosses

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Can be described as seedless vascular plants

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Sporanigia

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Another name for fern spores

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Seed

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An embryo of a plant that is encased in a protective covering and surrounded by a food supply

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4 groups of gymnosperms

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gnetophytes, cycads, ginkgoes, conifers

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Ovaries

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Protective structures found in angiosperms that protect seeds

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Annuals

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one growing season

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biennials

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2 yr life cycle

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perennials

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live for more than 2 yrs

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Functions of a root

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Absorb water and dissolved nutrients, anchor plants in the ground, hold plants upright and prevents them from being knocked down

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4 types of tissue, found?

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Meristematic-at end, tip of each growing stem and root is an apical meristem. Dermal-outer covering. Vascular-cross sections of a stem. Ground- everywhere else

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Meristematic produces new___?

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plant cells

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Dermal is the _____ of a plant?

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outer covering

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Xylem consists of _____ & _____?

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tracheids, vessel elements

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Phloem consists of _____&_____?

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sieve tube elements , companion cells

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2 types of roots and ex?

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Taproots (dicot) carrots dandelion beets radishes.... Fibrous (monocot) grasses

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Function of Stomata

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Allows carbon dioxide and oxygen to diffuse in and out of the leaf

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adhesion

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Attraction of unlike molecules

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cohesion

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Attraction of like molecules

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The root is aka the ____ of the plant?

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sink

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Pollen grains are produced by male or female?

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Male, Pollem cone

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2 examples of sterile leaves

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sepals and petals

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A ____ represents 3 generations of a gymnosperm life cycle

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zygote

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seed coat

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tough outer layer of seed

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a ripened ovary is called?

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fruit

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light weight seeds are typically dispersed by ____ & _____

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wind and water

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dormant

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seed is alive but not growing

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stolons

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horizantal stems

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3 major food crops in the world

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corm wheat rice

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Regions of tissue that produce cells that later become specialized

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meristematic

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powerful synthetic auxins

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herbicides

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tropism

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repsonses to plants of enviornmental stimuli

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phototropism

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responses of plants towards light

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photoperiodism

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repomse of plant to changes I'm length of day or night

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photocrome

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controls photoperiodism

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Flowering in many plants is dependent upon length of

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darkness

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why do plants form abscission layer?

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to react tk seasonal changes

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brilliant colors of leaves in fall are the result of

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the stopping of chlorophyll

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functions of knees

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bring oxygen to root

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adaptations of salt tolerant plants

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pump salt out of tissues

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four groups of plants

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mosses ferns conifers flowering