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What is the term used to define the conifers?
Gymnosperms
What is the term used to define the flowering plants?
Angiosperms
The angiosperms are divided into two groups, what are those groups?
Dicots/Monocots
What are the three major groups of plant tissue?
Ground Tissue/Dermal Tissue/Vascular Tissue
What are the three major cells of ground tissue?
1. Parenchyma cells
2. Collenchyma cells
3. Sclerenchyma cells
What is the term used to define a type of ground tissue cell that have thin walls and functions including photosynthesis, secretion, and storage?
Parenchyma cells
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?
Collenchyma cells
What is the term used to define a type of ground tissue cells with thicker walls than collenchyma, that provides mechanical support functions?
Sclerenchyma
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?
Dermal Tissue
What is the term used to define a the substance the epidermal cells secrete which is a waxy protective substance?
Cuticle
The vascular tissue consists of two major types of tissue, what are those tissues?
Xylem and Phloem
What is the term used to define a plant tissue that functions in the conduction of water and minerals, and also provides mechanical support?
Xylem
What is the term used to define a type of plant tissue that functions in the conduction of sugars?
Phloem
The seed consists of three structures, what are those structures?
1. Embryo
2. Seed Coat
3. Some kind of storage material (Endosperm or Cotyledons)
After a seed reaches maturity, it remains dormant until specific environmental cues are encountered that signal growth, what are examples these cues? (4)
1. Water
2. Temperature
3. Light
4. Seed Coat Damage
What is the term used to define tips of shoots?
Apical Meristems
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?
Primary Growth
Does secondary growth include primary growth?
Yes
What is the term used to define increasing of a plants girth, or lateral dimensions, along with its length?
Secondary Growth
What is the term used to define the outside surface of a root?
Epidermis
Epidermal cells produce XXXX XXXX.
Root Hairs
What is the term used to define the area of the root responsible for storing starch?
Cortex
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?
Endodermis
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.
Annula Rings
What is the term used to define loss of water in a plant due to evaporation?
Transpiration
What is the term used to define a structure on leaves equipped with numerous chloroplasts and large surface areas, specialized for photosynthsis?
Palisade Mesophyll
What is the term used to define a structure on leaves that control the opening and closing of stomata?
Guard Cells
Water and dissolved minerals enter the roots through root hairs by XXXXXXXX.
Osmosis
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?
Apoplast
What is the term used to define when water moves from one cell to another through the living portion of cells?
Symplast
What are the three mechanisms that are involved in the movement of water and dissolved minerals in plants?
1. Osmosis
2. Capillary Action
3. Cohesion-Tension Theory
What is the term used to define rise of liquids in narrow tubes?
Capillary Action
Each stomata is enclosed by two XXXX XXX?
Guard Cells
Stomata XXXXXXX when temperatures are high?
Close
Stomata XXXXX when CO2 concentrations are low inside the leaf?
Open
Stomata XXXXXX at night and XXXXXXXX during the day?
Close/Open
Increase in K+ ion concentrations causes the stomata to XXXXXXX?
Open
XXXXXXXXX is the movement of carbohydrates through the phloem from a source, such as leaves, to a sink, the site of carbohydrate utilization.
Translocation
In the transport of sugars in a plant, any cell can act as a sink in what two ways?
1. Turn Sugars into Starches
2. Use Sugars
What is the term used to define a plant hormone that promotes plant growth by facilitating the elongation of developing cells?
Auxin
What is the term used to define a plant hormone that promotes cell growth?
Gibberlins
What is the term used to define a plant hormone that stimulates cytokinesis?
Cytokinins
What is the term used to define a plant hormone the promotes ripening of fruits?
Ethylene
What is the term used to define a plant hormone that is a growth inhibitor?
Abscisic Acid
What is the term used to define a plants response to light?
Phototrpism
Phototrpism is achieved by the action of the hormone XXXXX?
Auxin
What is the term used to define a plants response to touch?
Thigmotropism
What is the term used to define a plants response to gravity in the stems and roots?
Gravitropism
What is the term used to define a plants response to changes in the reletive length of daytlight and night?
Photoperiodism
XXXXXX a protein modified with a light-absorbing chromophore, seems to be involved in sensing day/night cycles?
Phytochrome
What are the two forms of Phytochrome?
Pr or P 660/Pfr or P 730
XXXXX appears to reset the circadian-rythym clock.
Pfr
XXXX is the form of phytochrome synthesized in plant cells?
Pr
XXX and XXX are in equilibrium during daylight?
Pr & Pfr
XXX accumulates at night?
Pr
XXXXXX XXXXXX is responsible for resetting the circadian-rythym clock.
Night Length
XXXXXX-XXXXXX plants flower in the spring and early summer when daylight is increasing?
Long-Day
XXXXXX-XXXXXX plants flower in late summer and early fall when daylight is decreasing.
Short-Day
XXXXX-XXXXX plants do not flower in response to daylight changes?
Day-Neutral
What hormone in plants is responsible for flowering?
Florigen
What is the term used to define a structure within roots that makes up tissues inside the endodermis?
Vascular Cylinder or Stele