Botany Midterm Prep Unit 1

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Describe the Endoplasmic Reticulum

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Flattened sacs and tubes associated with the storage and transport of protein and other cell products

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What do animal cells not have?

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cell wall, plastids, large vacuoles

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What are meristems?

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Permanent regions of growth found only in plants

Where cells actively divide

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Apical meristem

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Found at tips of root and shoots

increases length of the plant

known as primary growth

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Lateral meristem

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Increase girth of roots and stems

known as secondary growth

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Primary meristems

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Ground meristem

protoderm

procambium

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What do primary meristems produce?

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Primary tissue

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Vascular cambiun produces?

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secondary tissues

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Role of secondary tissues

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function to support and conduct

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What does cork cambium do?

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Produces secondary tissues, just like vascular cambium

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Parenchyma

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Most abundant, found in all major parts

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Collenchyma

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Beneath the epidermis

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Sclerenchyma

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impregnated with lignin

function is support

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Two types of sclerenchyma

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Sclereids and fibers

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Sclereids

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Gritty texture in pears

Stone cells

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Fibers

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Longer than they are wide

lumen in center of cell

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Xylem

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Plumbing, storage and conduction for the plant

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Phloem

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Conducts dissolved food materials, primarily sugars produced by photosynthesis through the plant.

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A group of cells performing a common function is a

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Tissue

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Xylem conducts

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Water and minerals

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Phloem conducts

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Sugars

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What are vessels

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Composed of individual cells

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What are the vessel cells called

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vessel elements

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Pollen tube enters ovule at

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Micropyle

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The location where the seed attaches to parent plant is called

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hilum

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How many sperm produced per pollen grain

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2

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Calyx and Corolla together are called

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Perianth

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how many nuclei make up the embryo sac

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8

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seed takes up water in a process called

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imbibition

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Difference between epidermis and

periderm?

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Epidermis is outmost protective coating. Periderm replaces epidermis during secondary growth.

Periderm is multilayered

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Monocot flower parts

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3

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Dicot flower parts

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4 or 5

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Aperature definition

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a hole or gap

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Stems of monocots are primarily

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unbranched and fleshy

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Stems of dicots are usually

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tough and wider

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Monocot leaves

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Long and narrow, veins parallel

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Dicot leaves

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Distinct network of veins

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Monocots have how many seed leafs

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1

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Dicots have how many seed leafs

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2

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Parts of a seed

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Endosperm, Coyledon, Embryo

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Seed definition

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A flowering plants method of reproduction, develops into another plant

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seedpod of monocots

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usually 3 parts, often large and fleshy

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Number of cotyledons in monocot

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1

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Number of cotyledons in dicot

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2

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What is a cotyledon?

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One of the first of the leaves to spawn from a germinating seed

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What is germination?

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The process in which a plant grows from a seed

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How do spores work?

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When sporangia breaks open spores are released and dispersed by wind, growing into a tiny plant called a gametophyte