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UCO Bio II Lab Exam 2 Flashcards
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/24/2012

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Term

Idetify the parts.

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Definition

1.terminal bud

2. blade

3.petiole

4. node

5.internode

6.stipule

7. axillary bud

8. axil

Term
What is a node?
Definition
The position on a stem where a leaf was or is attached
Term
What is an internode?
Definition
The part of the stem between two nodes
Term
What is the axil?
Definition
the upper angle formed by a leaf and the twig to which it is attached
Term
What is a bud?
Definition
An underdeveloped shoot (stem with leaves) that can be naked or protected
Term
What is the axillary bud?
Definition
A bud borne in the axil of a leaf
Term
What is the terminal bud?
Definition
A bud borne at the tip of a stem.
Term
What are bud scales?
Definition
Scale-like modified leaves that cover and protect the terminal and axillary buds.
Term
What is a leaf blade?
Definition
The thin and flattened portion of a leaf: may be scale or needle like in some plants
Term
What is the petiole?
Definition
The leaf stalk
Term
What are stipules?
Definition
a pair of leaf-like appendages located at the base of a leaf.
Term

Identify the leaf and its distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

A simple leaf

A leaf with on undevided blade

Term

Identify the leaf Type and its distinguishing characteristics.

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Definition

Pinnately compound

A compound leaf with leaflets attached to both sides of an elongated rachis(extension of the petiole above the point of attachment of the lower most leaflet).

Term

Identify the leaf type and it distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Bipinnately compound

A compound leaf with leaflets again pinnately

Term

Identify the leaf type and its distiguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Palmately compound

A compound leaf with leaflets radiating from a common point of attatchment like the fingers of a palm.

Term

Identify the leaf arrangement and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Basal leaf arrangement

Leaves are attatched to an underground stem or rhizome, and appear to arise directly from the ground

Term

Identify the leaf arrangement and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Alternate

Only one leaf is attatched at each node

Term

Identify the leaf arrangement and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Opposite

Two leaves attached at each node, born at opposite sides of the stem

Term

Identify the leaf arrangement and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Whorled

Three or more leaves attached around the stem at the same node.

Term

Identify the leaf venation and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Pinnate venation

Leaf has a single midvein and secondary veins diverging from it.

Term

Identify the leaf venation and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Palmate venation

leaf hathree or more primary veins diverging from a common point at the base of the blade: secondary veins may diverge from each primary vein

Term

Identify the leaf venation and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Parallel venation

Leaf has several primary veins that extend parrallel to one another and to the leaf axis throughout the full length of a leaf

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

needle-like

Leaves fairly thick, needle shaped, much longer than wide

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Scale-like

small,flat, often triangular shaped leaves

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Linear

more than four times as long as it is wide, with parallel sides

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Oblong

2-4 times as long as wide, with parallel sides

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

lanceolate

lance or spearhead shaped, broadest at the base and tapering to the tip

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Oblanceolate

reverse lance shaped, broadest at the tip and tapering toward the end

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Elliptic

broadest at the middle tapering towards the ends

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Ovate

egg-shaped brodest just below the middle

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

obovate

reverse ovate,broadest just above the midlle

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Orbicular

Round

Term

Identify the leaf blade shape and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Cordate

Heart-shaped

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Entire.

smooth

 

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

serrate

saw-toothed, with teeth pointing more or less toward the tip of the leaf

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

doubly serrate

 

saw-toothed, with small teeth along edges of larger teeth

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

dentate

toothed, with teeth perpendicular to the leaf margin

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Crenate

scalloped edged, with rounded teeth

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Pinnately lobed.

lobes are along the sides of an elongated leaf

Term

Identify the leaf margin and the distinguishing characteristic.

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Definition

Palmately lobed

lobes diverge from a common point

Term
What are parenchyma cells?
Definition

Thin walled living cells that are found in many tissues within a plant.

living at maturity

exist aboth cells and tissues.

store food and water.

perform most metabolic functions

Term
What are Collenchyma cells?
Definition

cells with unevenly thickened cell walls that are elongated to provide flexible support.

living at maturity.

located just beneath the epidermis.

 

Term
What are sclerenchyma?
Definition

cells that have thick secondary walls and are dead at maturity.

provide more rigid support than collenchyma.

 strengthened by lignin

Term

Identify the cell at the tip of the pointer.

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Definition
Parenchyma
Term

Identify the patch of cells just under the epidermis.

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Definition
Collenchyma
Term

Identify the cells at the end of the pointer.

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Definition
Schlerenchyma
Term

Identify the tissues.

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Definition

1. pith

2.endodermis

3.primary xylem

4.secondary xylem

5.vascular cambium

6.ground tissue

7. phloem

8. cork cambium

9.epidermis

Term
What is xylem and what are the cell types that make up xylem?
Definition

water conducting elongated tubular cells with a thick secondary wall and are dead at maturity.

Tracheids-long thin cells with tapered ends.common in gymnosperms

Vessel elements-Shorter and wider than tracheids and are branch shaped

Term
What is phloem and what are the cell types that make  up phloem?
Definition

Sugar conducting cells that are living at maturity.

seive tube elements

 

Term
What is a seive tube member?
Definition

Living cell of the phloem that has no nucleaus or ribosomes.

has companion cells

Term
What is the function of companion cells?
Definition
To load sugars into the sieve tube element
Term

Identify the cells in the ring.

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Definition
Xylem
Term

Identify the cells in the ring.

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Definition
Phloem
Term

Identify the type of cells.

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Definition
Tracheids of the xylem
Term

Identify the type of cells.

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Definition
vessel elements
Term

Identify the red and black arrows.

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Definition

Red: sieve tube element

Black: companion cell

Term
What is the function of the meristem?
Definition
To generate cells in the plant body
Term
What type of growth do plants have?
Definition
Indeterminant
Term
What are annuals?
Definition
Plants that complete their life cycle (germination to seed production) in 1 year
Term
What are biennials?
Definition

plants that take two years to go through germination to seed production.

1st year vegetate

2nd year flower, fruit and die

Term
What are perrenials?
Definition
plants that take more than two years to complete their lifecycle
Term

What is the function of the apical meristem?

What type of growth consists of only these meristems?

Definition

produce cells to increase heigth and length.

primary growth

Term

What is the function of the lateral meristem?

What type of growth consists of only these meristems?

Definition

thin cylinder of cells one cell layer thick that produce cells to the inside and outside of a stem or root to increase diameter and girth.

secondary growth

Term

Identify the stage of growth and the structures.

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Definition

primary growth

1.epidermis

2.primary phloem

3.Cortex (Collenchyma and parenchyma)

4.Primary xylem

5. vascular cambium

6.interfascular parenchyma or pith rays

7.vascular bundle

8. Pith

Term
What does the vascular cambium produce?
Definition
Secondary xylem to the inside and secondary phloem to the outside
Term
What does the cork cambium produce?
Definition
Cork cells to the outside and phelloderm(Parenchyma) to the inside.
Term
What make up the periderm?
Definition
Cork cells, cork cambium, and phelloderm
Term

Identify the stage of growth and the structures.

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Definition

secondary growth

1. epidermis

2. cortex

3.primary phloem

4. secondary phloem

5. vascular cambium

6. secondary xylem

7. primary xylem

8. pith

Term
What tissues make up the bark?
Definition
the periderm and secondary phloem
Term
What are rihzomes?
Definition
horizontal stems that grow below ground
Term
What are bulbs?
Definition
a vertical underground shoot stem and leaf
Term
What are stolon?
Definition
Horizontal stems that grow on the surface
Term
What are tubers?
Definition
Swollen portion of a rihzome or stolon
Term
Where are stoma located on a horizontal leaf?
Definition
The lower part
Term
How are stoma distributed on a vertical leaf?
Definition
Equally
Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1.Cuticle

2. Upper epidermis

3.Palisade mesophyll

4. Bundle sheath

5.Xylem

6.Phloem

7. Lower epidermis

8. Spongy mesophyll

9.Guard cell

10. Stomata

11.Cuticle

12. Vein

Term
What are mesophytes?
Definition
Plants adapted to moist habitats
Term
What are xerophytes?
Definition
Plants adapted to arrid habitats
Term
What are hydrophytes?
Definition
Plants adapted to water based habitats.
Term
What are spines?
Definition
modified leaves with a low surface area to internal volume and are suculant(store water)
Term
What are tendrils?
Definition
Modified leaves that attatch plants
Term
What are reproductive leaves?
Definition
Modified leaves that have plantlets which are preformed plants.
Term
What are bracts?
Definition

a leaf that looks more like a flower than a leaf

found mainly in inflouresence.

Term
What are the function of roots?
Definition

Achor the plant

Absorbs inorganic nutrients

 

Term
What are taproots and what plants are they typical of?
Definition

root that has a major root with branching roots.

Gymnosperms and eudicots

Term
What are fibrous roots and what plants are they typical of?
Definition

No main root but has many equal sized roots.

Monocots

Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1. Zone of Differentiation

2. Zone of Elongation

3. Zone of Cell division

4. Root Cap

5. Apical meristem

6.Vascular cylinder

7. Root Hair

8.Epidermis

9.Xylem

10. Cortex

11. Phloem

12.Pericycle

13.Endodermis

Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1.Epidermis

2.Cortex

3. Endodermis

4. Pericycle

5.Phloem

6. Xylem

7. Vascular Cambium

8. Parenchym

Term

Identify the structures.

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Definition

1. Leaf Primordium

2.Leaf

3.Apical Meristem

4. Axillary Bud

5. Protoderm

6. Procambium

Term
What are prop roots?
Definition
Modified roots that come from lower nodes that prop the plant up
Term
What are storage roots?
Definition
Roots modified for the storage of nutrients
Term
What are aerial roots?
Definition
Modified roots above the ground
Term
What are pneumatophores?
Definition
Roots that function as respiratory organs in wetland plants.
Term
What are buttress roots?
Definition
Planklike roots that form on tropical rainforest trees above ground
Term
What is the definition of adventitious in botany?
Definition
Plant parts such as roots growing on plant parts they are not apart of
Term
What are the functions of water in plants?
Definition

Cool the plant

source of oxygen in photosynthesis

 

Term
What is the function of minerals in plants?
Definition
To supply inorganic nutrients to synthesize organic compounds
Term
What is the role of carbon dioxide in plants?
Definition
Used as a source of carbon in photosynthesis
Term
What is the role of light energy in plants?
Definition
Used in photosynthesis
Term
What are the roles of sugar in a plant?
Definition

Provide energy for the plant

provides basic building blocks for other organic compounds

Can move in both directions in a plant

Term
What is phyllotaxy?
Definition
The leaf oreintation and branching pattern of a plant
Term
What is the Transpiration Cohesion - Tension Theory?
Definition

describes how water moves from the roots to the leaf. Osmosis causes water to enter the xylem of roots from the soil.

1.Cohesion is due to the hydrogen bonding between the water molecules, water forms a string of molecules as it moves to the xylem.

2.Adhesion is the hydrogen binding of water molecules to the cell wall.

3.Constant transpiration at the top of the leaf pull the water molecules out of the plant.

The differences in water potentials and pressures cause this fairly constant movement of water through the plant.

Term
How are ions moved into the roots?
Definition
Through active transport
Term
What is the Applastic pathway?
Definition
Water moves through cell walls and intercellular spaces
Term
What is the symplastic pathway?
Definition
Water moves cell to cell through plasmodismata
Term
What is the transcellular pathway?
Definition
Water moves from cell to cell
Term
How does water move up a plant?
Definition

1. Water enters the stele(vascular cylinder) through the endodermis of the roots.

2.Xylem sap( water + minerals) moves up through the xylem of the root and stem.

3. The properties of water allow it to cohere to charged substance such as tracheids and vessel elements.

4. water enters the leaves and diffuses into the mesophyll, becomes water vapor in the air spaces, and then evaporates out of the stomata



Term
What is the casperian strip?
Definition
A waxy layer on the endodermis that can keep water and ions from moving through the cell wall
Term

Does the movement of water require energy?

Why does or doesn't it?

Definition

It requires no energy expenditure.

Because water movement is by bulk flow, movement of a liquid driven by pressure.

Water follow a gradient of water potential-The tendency of water to move

Term

What is the process of transpiration?

What does this cause?

Definition

as 1 water molecule evaporates another water molecule takes its place.

the loss of water from the top of the plant results in a negative pressure, a pull or tension is transmitted from leaf to stem to root

Term
How do stomata open?
Definition

K+ ions are actively transported into guard cells, Water follows, turgor pressure builds up because of the radial orientation of the cellullose microfibrils, and the constant length of the thick inner walls of the guard cells.

The guard cells pull awat from one another opening the stoma

Term
How do stomata close?
Definition
A hormone called abscissic acid is produced, stimulating transport of K+ out of the guard cells
Term
Is the osmostic pressure created by the roots significant in the transport of water?
Definition
No it is negligible
Term
What is Guttation?
Definition
Exudation of droplets from tips and margins of leaves at night.
Term
What is translocation?
Definition
movement of sugars in phloem.
Term
What is the pressure flow hypothesis?
Definition

Theory of sugar transport in plants. 

1. follows a source sink pattern the source being photosynthetic leaves and the sink being any plant part not meeting its own nutritional needs

Term
What percent of solutes are in the seive tube element?
Definition
10-25 percent solutes of that 90 percent are sugars, mainly sucrose
Term
How do sugars move through the sieve tube elements?
Definition

1. companion cells load sugar into the sieve tube element via active transport.

2. water follows the sugar washing it down the sieve tube.

3. Sugars are unloaded in the sink cell.

4. Water is recycled

Term
Where does most plant mass come from?
Definition
The air
Term
How much mass does water make up of a plant?
Definition
80-90 percent
Term
What mass makes up the dry mass in plants?
Definition
96 percent is organic compounds rest is inorganic nutrients or minerals
Term
What is most dry mass derrived from?
Definition
CO2 from the air
Term
What are essential elements?
Definition
Elements required by plants
Term

What are macronutrients?

How many are there,what are they, and what are their primary functions in plants?

Definition

Nutrients required in large amounts.

9.

CHNOPS- major components of organic compounds.

K- water balance; opening and closing of stomata

Ca- Cell Walls; Regulates responses to stimuli

Mg; Chlorophyll

 

 

 

Term

What are micronutrients?

How many are there?

Definition

Nutrients needed in small amounts

8.

 

Term
What kind  of relationships do plants have to help take up nutrients?
Definition
Mutualistic
Term
What are Epiphytes?
Definition
Plants that grow on another plant but get no water, minerals or organic nutrients from the host plant.
Term
What is a parasitic plant?
Definition
Plant that absorbs sugars, minerals, and water from hosts
Term
What are carnivorous plants?
Definition

Plant that are photosynthetic but take minerals from insects they digest.

are autotrophic

Term
How do plants respond to environmental factors?
Definition

Adjust growth and development

 

Term
What is growth in a plant?
Definition
Increase in size
Term
What is development in a plant?
Definition
cell differentiation
Term
What is Etiolation?
Definition
A plant response to the absence of light characterized by looking spindly, no chlorophyll, and leaves not expanded
Term
What is de-etiolation?
Definition

The changes a plant shoot undergoes in response to light.

stem elongation shows, leaves expand,

roots elongate, and the shoot produces chlorophyll

Term
What are receptors?
Definition
Proteins that change shape in response to a stimulus
Term
What is the receptor in de-etiolation?
Definition
Phytochrome in the cytoplasm that detects light
Term
What is transduction?
Definition
The conversion of a signal from outside the cell to a form that can bring a specific cellular response
Term
What are second messengers?
Definition
small molecules and ions in the cell that amplify the signal and transfer it from the receptor to other proteins that carrry out the response
Term
What are the de-etiolation second messengers?
Definition
cGMP and Ca2+
Term
What is the transduction pathway of de-etiolation?
Definition

1. cGMP and Ca2+ to protein kinases

2. protein kinases to transcript factors that bind to DNA

Term
What is the response pathway?
Definition
Pathway that leads to regulation of cellular activities, usually increased activity of enzymes
Term
What are the mechanisms of response?
Definition

Transcriptional regulation increases or decreases mRNA synthesis

Post- translational modification activates existing enzymes 

both involved in de-etiolation enzyme production

Term
What do Plant hormones control?
Definition
Every aspect of plant growth and development
Term
How are hormones usually transported?
Definition
produced in one tissue and transported to another
Term
What type of compounds are hormones?
Definition
organic
Term
How much hormone is required for activity?
Definition
Can be functional in very small quantities
Term
What are the functions of hormones?
Definition
to inhibit, promote, or modify physiological proceses.
Term
What does the effect of a hormone depend on?
Definition
The concentration of the hormone
Term
What happens when hormones bind to receptors on cells?
Definition
They activate signal transduction pathways
Term
Are processes usually controlled by one or multiple hormones?
Definition
multiple hormones
Term
What are tropisms?
Definition
Growth responses that result in a plant organ curving towards or away from a stimulus
Term
What are Auxins?
Definition

plant hormones

polar transport through parenchyma

produced in the shoot apical meristem, seeds and young leaves.

stimulates stem elongation, promotes the formation of lateral and adventitious roots.

used as herbicides in high concentrations

Term
What are cytokinins?
Definition

Plant hormones discovered in coconut endosperm.

Derrived form adenine most common is Zeatin

Synthesized primarilly in root tip meristems.

Transported up through the xylem

Term
What are the functions of cytokinins?
Definition

1. effect cell division

2. promote differentiation, including shoot formation in tissue culture

3. control of apical dominance- both cytokinins and auxins

4. anti-aging effects- delay senesence

Term
How do cytokinins inhibit aging?
Definition
By inhibiting protein breakdown.
Term
What are Gilberellins (GA)?
Definition

Plant hormone from acetyl-CoA

discovered in fungi

Term
What are the functions of Gilberellins?
Definition

1. elongation of shoots

2. Fruit Growth, also increase distance between internodes, allowing better air circulation

3. Induce seed germination, break dormancy

Term
What is dormancy?
Definition
Mechanism to prevent seeds from germinating until conditions are good for seedling establishment
Term
What is Abscisic acid (ABA)?
Definition
Plant hormone from carotenoids in plastids
Term
What are the functions of Abscisic Acid(ABA)?
Definition

1.slows growth

2. Closes stomata

3. induces and maintains dormancy in seeds

Term
What is Ethylene?
Definition
Gasous plant hormone synthesized form methionine mostly in response to stress, and in tissue undergoing senesence or ripening
Term
What are the functions of Ethylene?
Definition

1. Triple response to mechanical stress 

stops stem elongation, swells the stem, and grows the stem horizontally.

2. Leaf and fruit abscission

Ethylene promotes, auxin inhibits

3. Fruit ripening

color change, starch converted to sugar, cell wall materials broken down, fruits soften

4. maintain hook in emerging seedlings in the dark

Term
What is developmental plasticity and how does it relate to plants?
Definition

The ability to alter development in response to environmental factors.

Plant can alter there development to adapt to the conditions in which they live.

Term
What cell types make up the ground tissue system?
Definition

Parenchyma

Collenchyma

Schlerenchyma

Term
What tissues and cell types make up the vascular tissue system?
Definition

Tissues: Xylem and Phloem

Cell Types: Tracheids, vessel elements, parenchyma cells, fibers.

sieve tube members, companion cells, parenchyma cells, and fibers

Term
What tissues and cell types make up the dermal tissue system?
Definition

Tissues: Epidermis and Periderm.

Cell types: Epidermis- parenchyma, guard cells,and trichomes.

Periderm- cork cells, cork cambium, and cork parenchyma

Term
What is the procambium?
Definition
region of undifferitated cells just behind the apical meristem that turns into the conducting tissues
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