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What are the characteristics of life?
Order, metabolism, responsiveness, development, heredity, evolution
What are causes of genetic mutation?
Radiation, viruses, toxins, and random errors
What is systematics?
The study of biological diversity in an evolutionary context, encompassing taxonomy and involving the reconstruction of phylogenetic history
What is phylogeny?
The evolutionary history of a species or group of related species
What is taxonomy?
The science of naming and classifying organisms.
Are mushrooms more closely related to humans or plants?
Humans
Name the classification of taxonomy in order
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
When did plants start arriving in to earth?
5 million years ago
What evidences do we use to create phylogentic trees?
Fossils, comparative anatomy, DNA and amino acid sequencing
What is the receptacle?
The portion of the pedicel upon which the flower parts are borne.
What is a pedicel?
The stalk of a single flower. It attaches the flower to the plant
What is the calyx?
The outermost whorl. A collective term for all the sepals
What is a corolla?
Term for all of the petals
What is the function of a pedal?
To attract pollinators and act as a landing platform.
What is a perianth?
the calyx + corolla
What is the androecium?
The male flower parts, Consists of stamens.
What is the stamen consisted of?
The anther and filament
What is the gynoecium?
Term for female parts, called carpels
What is the carpel consists of?
Stigma, style, and ovary
If the ovary is superior then the flower is
hypogynous
If the flower has an inferior ovary, then the flower is
epigynous
What is the petiole?
The talk that attaches the leaf blade to the plant
Name the types of leaf arrangements and explain each
Acaulescent - leaves arranged in a basal to rosette, not attached to a stern (on the ground)
Alternate - leaves alternate
opposite - leaves opposite to each other.
Whorled - 3 or more leaves arising from the same node. .
Name the different types of inflorescence.
Solitary, spike, raceme, and panicle
Explain a spike inflorescence
has single sessile flower
Explain a raceme inflorescence
flowers are on pedicels
Explain a panicle inflorescence
branched raceme, very branched