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| Before planting our seed, the hard seed coat must be weakened in a process known as |
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| After the _______ is weakened, the seed is placed in moist soil in a cooler for several months to break its dormancy in a process known as cold stratification. |
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| After the testa is weakened, the seed is placed in moist soil in a cooler for several months to break its ________ in a process known as cold stratification. |
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| After the testa is weakened, the seed is placed in moist soil in a cooler for several months to break its dormancy in a process known as __________. |
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| The endosperm degrades in our __________ seed and the energy is stored in the cotyledons. |
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| The seed undergoes ________ germination leaving the cotyledons below ground. |
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| As our single shoot begins to grow rapidly, __________ inhibits lateral bud break. |
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| After a couple years of growth, our plant still has spiny leaves unlike its parent indicating that it is still in its __________ phase. |
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| As our plant matures further, it becomes __________ to flower. |
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| Our plant must first undergo a period of chilling to initiate floral buds in a process known as ________. |
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| Then, our plant will flower when there is greater than 10 hours of sunlight per day indicating that it is a __________ with its photoperiodism controlled by phytochrome. |
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| Then, our plant will flower when there is greater than 10 hours of sunlight per day indicating that it is a long-day plant with its photoperiodism controlled by _________. |
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| As our flower opens, we notice that we have a ___________ flower because the stigma is mature before the pollen has matured or dispersed. |
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| Since we only had one flower this year and our plant was growing in a greenhouse isolated from other pollinizers, we thought that we would not produce any fruit. However we did produce a fruit! We removed our fruit once it had reached ___________ and could continue to develop and ripen after being detached from the plant. |
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| We expected it to be a ____________ fruit that arose without pollination and lacking any seeds. But to our surprise, we cut open our fruit and there were seeds. |
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| vegetative parthenocarpic |
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| This means our plant was actually ________ and produced seeds without fertilization. We collect the seeds and sow them knowing that they will be perfect clones of our mother plant, and the process begins all over again. |
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