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17 Cards in this Set
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What's The Phloem? |
The vascular tissue in plants which conducts sugars and other metabolic products downwards from the leaves. |
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What's The Xylem? |
The vascular tissue in plants which conducts water and dissolved nutrients upwards from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem. |
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What's Diffusion? |
Diffusion is the movement of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. |
High to Low |
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Whats Osmosis? |
Where the water molecules are in higher concentration to lower concerntration. (only water) |
Higher to lower |
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What's active transport? |
The movement of ions or molecules across a cell membrane into a area of higher concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy. |
into higher concerntration |
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What's vascular bundle? |
A strand of conducting vessels in the stem or leaves of a plant, typically with phloem on the outside and xylem on the inside. |
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What's Turgid? |
Cells or tissues that are swollen from water uptake. |
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What's cytoplasm? |
A thick solution composed of water, salts and proteins that fills each cell and is enclosed by the cell membrane. |
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What's a Vacuole? |
A space within a cell that is empty of cytoplasm, lined with a membrane, and filled with fluid. |
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What's rigid? |
Unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible. |
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What's Stomata? |
A slit of variable width in a plants leaf which allows movement of gases in and out of the intercellular spaces. |
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What are a plant's organs? |
Roots, Leaves and Stem |
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What's Epidermis? |
The outer layer of tissue in a plant. |
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What's Cuticle? |
A protecting film covering the epidermis of leaves, young shoots and other aerial plant organs without periderm. |
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What's Paliside Mesophyll |
Leaf Cells |
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What's Multicellular |
Made up of many cells |
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Mitochondria |
Needed to generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions. |
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