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55 Cards in this Set
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organism that encloses its DNA in a nucleus
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Eukaryote
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angiosperms that includes grasses, orchids and palms
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monocot
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diploid spore forming stage in a plant life cycle
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sporophyte
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source of secondary growth
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lateral meristem
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embryo sporophyte ofa seed plant packaged with nutritive tissue inside a protective coat
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seed
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single celled organism the dna resides in the cytoplasam
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prokaryote
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animal that transmits a ptahogen between its host
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vector
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made up of living cells main component of groudn tissue
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parenchyma
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disease causing agent
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pathogen
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haploud gamete forming stage in plant life cycle
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gametophyte
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male gametophye of a seed plant
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pollen grain
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angiosperms that includes herbaceous plants woody trees and cacti
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eudicot
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the lignin reinforced walls of these cells strcturally support plant parts
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sclerenchyma
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source of primary growth
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apical meristem
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one pair of cells that define the stoma across the epidermis
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gaurd cell
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which of the following components waa not part of the earths early atmosphere
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oxygen gas
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which of the following sites may have been the site of assembly of complexx molecules of life
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at the hydropthermal vents in shallow pools of clay rich tidal flats
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two researches suggested in the 1960s that __ may ahve been the first informational molcule
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Saccharide
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stanley millers experiment demonstrated that
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amino acids can assemble under some conidtions
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the evolution of ___ resulted in an increase in the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere
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photosynthesis
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the first eukaryotic cells may have been
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protist
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which of the following eukaryotic organelles are believed to have existed as independent prokaryotes in the past
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chloroplast and mitocondria
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the process by which one bacterial cell transfers DNA to another is
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conjugation
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which of the following do anaerobic methanogens produce
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hydrogen sulfide
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flagellated protozoans posses a layer of elastic proteins just beneath the plasma membrane called the
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pellicle
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which of the following protitst are able to produce bioilluminescent molecules
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dinoflagellates
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which of the following would be of the greatest concern to an epidemiologist
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pandemic outbreak of a disease
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ferns are classified as
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seedless vascularplants
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a mushroom is
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a reproductive structure that releases sexual spores
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cutting down forest affects
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the local climate, balance in the ecoystem composition of soil and animals and insects
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photosynthic plants evolved directly from which of the following organisms
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green algae
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which of the following characteristics is common to bryophytes and to seedless vascular plants
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water required for fertilization
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in the lysogenic pathway the viral DNA is
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integrated into the bacterial chromosome
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in ferns, club mosses and horsetails
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the main plant type is a body gametophyte, the vascular tissue is abscent
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which of the following will eventually produce a mature pollen
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microspore
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the seed develops from
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the ovule
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which of the following plants are capable of secondary growth
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maple trees
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which of the following plants it not a gymnosperm
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palm
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angiosperms are more advanced than gymnosperms because gymnosperms lack which structure found in angiosperms
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fruits
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the domination of the flowering plants over the past 100 million years appear to be their coevolution with
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insect pollinaters
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in flowering plants pollen grains form in the flowers male part called
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the stamen
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which of the following is true of fungi
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includes molds yeasts and mushrooms,cells are structured in the mycelia, they produce spores and are all decomposers
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most true fungi send out cellular filaments called
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hyphae
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roots and shoots lenthern through activity at
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apical meristems
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when guard cells swell,
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a stoma opens
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a cuticle
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resists water loss covers epidermal cells contains waxes and cutin and resists attack by microorganisms
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what is true of monocots
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vascular bundles are destributed throughout stem tissue
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the stalk that supports the indiviudal eudicto leaf is the
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petiole
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the veins of leaves are used for
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transport of water and nutrients
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annual growth rings are formed in woody stems spincipally through the activities of the
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vascular cambium
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bark is
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a mixture of secondary phloem and periderm
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sugar transport from leaves to roots occurs by
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differences in source and sink
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water inside all of the xylem cells is being pulled upward primarily by
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negative pressure from the atmmosphere
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movement of soluable organic amterial through plants is known as
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translocation
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the source region in the pressure flow explanation of phloem transport is most often the
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LEAF
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