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64 Cards in this Set
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organelles associated with storage or manufacture of carbohydrates
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plastids
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plastids that contain pigments other than chlorophyll (usually yellow or orange)
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chromoplasts
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carbohydrates are often stored in this form (deep purple dots)
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starch
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needle-like crystals formed as metabolic by-products of plants (found is banana peels)
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raphides
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compound crystals formed as metabolic by-products of plants (found in pith of Geranium)
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druses
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thinnest plant tissue
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parenchyma
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medium-thickness cells around the vessels, get caught in your teeth when you eat celery, flexible
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collenchyma
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thickest plant tissue, adjacent to xylem and phloem
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sclerenchyma
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fungus experts
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mycologists
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water molds (phylum)
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Phylum Oomycota
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bundle of hyphae
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mycelium
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distinct mycelium
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thalloid
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cellular slime molds (phylum)
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Dictyosteliomycota
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plasmodial or true slime molds (phylum)
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Myxomycota
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informal taxonomic ground united by biflagellate zoospores
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Stramenopila
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lacking cell walls
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coenocytic
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ingest dead organic material
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saprobes
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a rot just below the soil that causes young seedlings to fall over and die
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damping off
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potato blight
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Phytophthora infestans
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dessicated dormant resting stage of plasmodium
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sclerotium
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single/multi cellular structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi
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sorocarp
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decompose large amounts of dead organic matter
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saprotrophs
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root and fungi associations
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mycorrhizae
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a cross-wall, similar to cell wall
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septa
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two non-identical nuclei within each cell
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dikaryotic
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a type of zoospore of many chytridiomycetes common to almost any freshwater body
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encysted
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a variety of terrestrial and freshwater saprobes, parasites and pathogens. the most imfamous of which parasitize amphibians (phylum) coenocytic.
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Chytridiomycota
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a phylum of invasive and aggressive saprobes and pathogens. including a number of opportunistic human pathogens
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Zygomycota
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simple mating system of the phylum zygomycota
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mating type
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thick walled dormant structure of the phylum zygomycota
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zygosporangium
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a wide variety of "sac" fungi including penicillin
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Phylum Ascomycota
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Phylum of fungi including the edible mushrooms
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Basidiomycota
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pathogens of cereals from the phylum basidiomycota
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rusts
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digest outside cell, use cell wall and plasma membrane to bring particles inside
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absorptive nutrition
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club shapted reproductive structures of club fungi that produce ___spores during sexual reproduction
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basidium (basidiospores)
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brown algae
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Phylum Phaeophyta
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anchor of the kelp
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holdfast
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vegetative body of an organism
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thallus
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diatoms
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Phylum Bacillariophyta
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accumulated shells of diatoms commercially used as abrasives and filters
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diatomaceous earth
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Golden algae
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Phylum Chrysophyta
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Red algae
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Phylum Rhodophyta
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Dinoflagellates
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Phylum Dinophyta
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dinoflagellates reproduce rapidly to produce these
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red tides or algal blooms
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green algae
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Phylum Chlorophyta
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symbiosis of a fungus (usually an ascomycete) and an algae (usually Chlorophyta). form when nutrition or moisture conditions become hostile
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lichens
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type of lichen, scale-like
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crustose
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branched, stringy type of lichen
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fruticose
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leaf-like type of lichen
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foliose
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key used to determine species, etc
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Dichotomous key
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a waxy covering on aboveground structures
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cuticle
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mosses
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Phylum Bryophyta
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short threads of cells that anchor bryophytes to ground
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rhizoids
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specialized male structure on the gametophyte
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antheridia
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specialized female structure on the gametophyte
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archegonia
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stoneworts
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Phylum Charophyta
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multiplication of cells near the tip of the plant
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apical growth
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liverworts
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Phylum Hepatophyta
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liverworts are the most primitive land plants and lack this feature which is typical of land plants
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stomata
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liverwort structure which utilizes rain drops for its asexual cycle
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gemma cups
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long and greenish structure (2n) in the sporangium of some liverworts, facilitates spore dispersal
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elaters
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hornworts
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Phylum Anthocerophyta
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a green, usually branched, threadlike or sometimes platelike growth from a bryophyte spore; it gives rise to "leafy" gametophytes
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protonema
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the lid or cap that protects the peristome of a moss sporangium
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operculum
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