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61 Cards in this Set
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What is the term used to define the conifers?
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Gymnosperms
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What is the term used to define the flowering plants?
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Angiosperms
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The angiosperms are divided into two groups, what are those groups?
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Dicots/Monocots
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What are the three major groups of plant tissue?
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Ground Tissue/Dermal Tissue/Vascular Tissue
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What are the three major cells of ground tissue?
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1. Parenchyma cells
2. Collenchyma cells 3. Sclerenchyma cells |
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What is the term used to define a type of ground tissue cell that have thin walls and functions including photosynthesis, secretion, and storage?
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Parenchyma cells
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What is the term used to define a type of ground tissue cell that has thick but flexible cell walls, and serve mechanical support functions?
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Collenchyma cells
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What is the term used to define a type of ground tissue cells with thicker walls than collenchyma, that provides mechanical support functions?
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Sclerenchyma
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What is the term used to define a type of plant tissue that consists of epidermis cells that cover the outside of plant parts, guard cells that surround stomata, and various specialized cells including hair cells, stinging cells, and gladular cells?
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Dermal Tissue
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What is the term used to define a the substance the epidermal cells secrete which is a waxy protective substance?
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Cuticle
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The vascular tissue consists of two major types of tissue, what are those tissues?
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Xylem and Phloem
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What is the term used to define a plant tissue that functions in the conduction of water and minerals, and also provides mechanical support?
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Xylem
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What is the term used to define a type of plant tissue that functions in the conduction of sugars?
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Phloem
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The seed consists of three structures, what are those structures?
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1. Embryo
2. Seed Coat 3. Some kind of storage material (Endosperm or Cotyledons) |
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After a seed reaches maturity, it remains dormant until specific environmental cues are encountered that signal growth, what are examples these cues? (4)
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1. Water
2. Temperature 3. Light 4. Seed Coat Damage |
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What is the term used to define tips of shoots?
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Apical Meristems
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What is the term used to define when actively dividing cells occur only at the apical meristems producing growth that increases the legth of a shoot or root?
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Primary Growth
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Does secondary growth include primary growth?
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Yes
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What is the term used to define increasing of a plants girth, or lateral dimensions, along with its length?
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Secondary Growth
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What is the term used to define the outside surface of a root?
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Epidermis
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Epidermal cells produce XXXX XXXX.
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Root Hairs
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What is the term used to define the area of the root responsible for storing starch?
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Cortex
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What is the term used to define an area of the root that consists of a ring of tightly packed cells at the innermost of the cortex?
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Endodermis
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The alteration of growth and dormancy produces XXXXXXXX XXXXXX which can be used to determine the age, and amount of rainfall in different periods of a trees lifetime.
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Annula Rings
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What is the term used to define loss of water in a plant due to evaporation?
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Transpiration
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What is the term used to define a structure on leaves equipped with numerous chloroplasts and large surface areas, specialized for photosynthsis?
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Palisade Mesophyll
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What is the term used to define a structure on leaves that control the opening and closing of stomata?
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Guard Cells
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Water and dissolved minerals enter the roots through root hairs by XXXXXXXX.
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Osmosis
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What is the term used to define when water moves through cell walls and intercellular spaces from one cell to another without ever entering the cell?
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Apoplast
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What is the term used to define when water moves from one cell to another through the living portion of cells?
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Symplast
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What are the three mechanisms that are involved in the movement of water and dissolved minerals in plants?
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1. Osmosis
2. Capillary Action 3. Cohesion-Tension Theory |
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What is the term used to define rise of liquids in narrow tubes?
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Capillary Action
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Each stomata is enclosed by two XXXX XXX?
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Guard Cells
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Stomata XXXXXXX when temperatures are high?
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Close
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Stomata XXXXX when CO2 concentrations are low inside the leaf?
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Open
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Stomata XXXXXX at night and XXXXXXXX during the day?
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Close/Open
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Increase in K+ ion concentrations causes the stomata to XXXXXXX?
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Open
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XXXXXXXXX is the movement of carbohydrates through the phloem from a source, such as leaves, to a sink, the site of carbohydrate utilization.
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Translocation
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In the transport of sugars in a plant, any cell can act as a sink in what two ways?
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1. Turn Sugars into Starches
2. Use Sugars |
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What is the term used to define a plant hormone that promotes plant growth by facilitating the elongation of developing cells?
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Auxin
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What is the term used to define a plant hormone that promotes cell growth?
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Gibberlins
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What is the term used to define a plant hormone that stimulates cytokinesis?
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Cytokinins
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What is the term used to define a plant hormone the promotes ripening of fruits?
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Ethylene
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What is the term used to define a plant hormone that is a growth inhibitor?
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Abscisic Acid
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What is the term used to define a plants response to light?
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Phototrpism
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Phototrpism is achieved by the action of the hormone XXXXX?
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Auxin
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What is the term used to define a plants response to touch?
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Thigmotropism
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What is the term used to define a plants response to gravity in the stems and roots?
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Gravitropism
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What is the term used to define a plants response to changes in the reletive length of daytlight and night?
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Photoperiodism
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XXXXXX a protein modified with a light-absorbing chromophore, seems to be involved in sensing day/night cycles?
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Phytochrome
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What are the two forms of Phytochrome?
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Pr or P 660/Pfr or P 730
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XXXXX appears to reset the circadian-rythym clock.
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Pfr
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XXXX is the form of phytochrome synthesized in plant cells?
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Pr
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XXX and XXX are in equilibrium during daylight?
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Pr & Pfr
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XXX accumulates at night?
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Pr
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XXXXXX XXXXXX is responsible for resetting the circadian-rythym clock.
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Night Length
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XXXXXX-XXXXXX plants flower in the spring and early summer when daylight is increasing?
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Long-Day
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XXXXXX-XXXXXX plants flower in late summer and early fall when daylight is decreasing.
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Short-Day
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XXXXX-XXXXX plants do not flower in response to daylight changes?
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Day-Neutral
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What hormone in plants is responsible for flowering?
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Florigen
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What is the term used to define a structure within roots that makes up tissues inside the endodermis?
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Vascular Cylinder or Stele
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