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20 Cards in this Set
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How would you describe an herbaceous plant?
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-water filled cells with thin walls
-Often low to ground -Killed to ground in winter |
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How would you describe a woody plant?
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-strong cell wall
-can be very large -typically survive winter above ground |
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What is the difference between decidous and evergreen trees?
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-deciduous loose their leaves when dormant
-evergreens maintain leaves, but drops some over time |
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What are the two leaf patterns of evergreens?
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-broad leafed (tropical/sub-tropical)
-needled (temperate) |
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What is a weed?
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-a misplaced plant such as daisies and sunflowers
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What is an exotic plant?
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Any plant not native to the area but not considered a weed
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What plant is extremely invasive and the government paid money to plant it?
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-Kudzu
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What is the Botanical System of Plant Classification?
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-based on plants coming from one ancestor
-show all plants are somehow related -Domain, KPCOFGS |
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What are the three domains?
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-Eukarya (plants, animals, fungi, protists)
-Bacteria -Archaea (live in extreme environments) |
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What are the 5 major plant divisions and what are found in them?
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1. Pterophyta = ferns
2. Cycadophyta = cycads 3. Ginkgophyta = ginkgos 4. Coniferophyta = conifers 5. Angiophyta = flowering plants |
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What division is most used ornamentally by gardeners?
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-Angiophyta (flowering plants)
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What are the two divisions of Angiophyta?
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-monocotyledoneae (monocots) 50,000 species
-dicotyledoneae (dicots) 200,000 species |
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How do the vascular bundles differ in each angiophyta division? Leaves?
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-mono: scattered with 3 flower parts and parrallel leaf venation (one leaf on seed)
-di: circular with 4 or 5 flower parts, branched veination, and two cotyledons |
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In the binomial system of nomenclature, what do you do to the name?
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-italicize or underline it
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When naming families, what denotes it as a "family"?
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-ends in aceae
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What makes flowers go in the same genus?
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-similar in structure
-same choromosome numbers |
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What puts flowers in the same species?
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-close appearance, structure, and development
-can sometimes interbreed |
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What does the variety name add to the genus and species?
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-"true-to-type" from seed
-distinct character seperates species members |
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What is a cultivar?
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-a specific variety that has been cultivated for a specific trait (retained with reproduction/cutting)
-put in single quotes and capitalized |
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What is a clone?
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-a genetically identical plant derived from a mother plant by asexual reproduction (cuttings or tissue culture)
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