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Chapter 36 Resource Acquisition and Transport Flashcards

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What is short-distance transport?

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Movement of water and solutes within cells and tissues.

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What is long-distance transport?

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Movement of water and solutes through xylem and phloem across the plant body.

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What does the stems serve as?

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Serves as conduits for water and nutrients as supporting structures for leaves

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What is phyllotaxy?

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Arrangement of leaves on a stem, is a species-specified trait important for light capture

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What is canopy?

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Leafy portion of all the plants in a community; its depth affects productivity of each plant

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What is self-pruning canopy?

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Shedding of the lower shaded leaves occurs when they respire more then photosynthesize

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What affects light absorption? (2 things)

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  • leaf area index
  • leaf orientation
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What is leaf area index?

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the ratio of total upper leaf surface of a plant divided by the surface area of land on which it grows

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What is low light leaf orientation?

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Horizontal leaves captures more sunlight

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What is sunny conditions leaf orientation?

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Vertical leaves are less damaged by sun and allows light to reach lower leaves

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Roots competitveness

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Roots are less competitive with other roots from the same plant than with roots from different plants

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What are the 2 major pathways through plants?

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  1. Apoplast
  2. Symplast
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What is apoplast?

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Consists of everything external to the plasma membrane

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What is a symplast?

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Consists of the cytosol of all the living cells in a plant, as well as the plasmodesmata

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What are the 3 transport routes for water and solutes

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  • apoplastic route: thru cell walls and extracellular spaces
  • symplastic route: through the cytosol
  • transmembrane route: across cell walls
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What is osmosis?

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Diffusion of water into or out of a cell that’s affected by solute concentration and pressure

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What happens if an area has a higher solute and less water?

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Water moves towards the higher solute to balance everything out

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What is an example of active transport for the plasma membrane?

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Plant cells using the energy of H+ gradients to cotransport other solutes

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What is water potential?

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Measurement that combines the effect of solute concentration and pressure

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What does water potential refer to?

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Refers to water’s capacity to perform work

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Higher water potential vs lower water potential

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low solute vs high solute

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What is the formula for water potentia?

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solute potential + pressure potential

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What is the measurement of water potential

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Megapascal (MPa)

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What is solute potential?

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Solution is directly proportional to its molarity

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What is pressure potential?
Physical pressure on a solution
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What is turgor pressure?
Pressure extending by the plasma membrane against the cell wall, and the cell wall against the protoplast
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What is a protoplast?
Living part of the cell, which also includes the plasma membrane
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What is plasmolysis?
When a cell loses water and the plasma membrane pulls away from the cell wall.
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What is a flaccid (limp) cell?
A cell when placed in an environment with a higher solute concentration, cell will lose water and undergo plasmolysis
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What does root hairs do?
increase the surface area for absorption.
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What is the casparian strip?
waxy layer of the endodermal wall blocks apoplastic transfer of minerals from the cortex to the vascular cylinder
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What is the endodermis?
Innermost layer of the cells in the root cortex
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What does the endodermis do?
surrounds vascular cylinder; acts as the last checkpoint for selective passage of minerals from cortex into vascular tissue
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bulk flow vs. diffusion (5 things)
- doesn't require energy from plant - driven by differences in pressure potential only - moves entire solution - much faster - occurs in hollow dead cells only
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What is xylem sap?
water and dissolved minerals that are transported from roots to leaves via transpiration
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What is transpiration?
Evaporation of water from a plant's surface
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Is sap pushed up from the roots or pulled up by the leaves?
Pulled up by the leaves
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What is an example of long-distance transport?
bulk flow: movement of a fluid driven by pressure
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Turgid cell
Cell gains water if a flaccid cell is placed in a solution with a lower solute concentration; Turgor loss causes wilting
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What are aquaporins?
Transport proteins in the cell membrane that facilitate the passage of water
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What is the cohesion-tension mechanism?
explains how transpiration creates a negative pressure (tension) that pulls water upward through the plant.
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cohesion
Hydrogen bonding between water molecules.
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adhesion
Attraction between water molecules and the walls of xylem vessels.
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Stomata
Small pores on the leaf surface that control gas exchange and transpiration.
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Turgid guard cells vs flaccid guard cells in terms of stomata
stomata open (turgid) vs stomata closed (flaccid)
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What triggers stomatal opening at dawn?
- light - CO2 depletion - internal "clocks" in guard cells -> circadian rhythms (24 hr cycles)
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Xerophytes
Plants adapted to arid environments with reduced transpiration rates.
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What is the pressure flow hypothesis (pushing xylem sap)? 3 things
water flows in from the root cortex, generating root pressure, a push of xylem sap
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What is translocation?
Process of moving producers of photosynthesis through the phloem
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What is phloem sap?
An aqueous solution that's high in sucrose
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What is a sugar source?
Organ that's a net producer of sugar such as leaves
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What is a sugar sink?
An organ that's a net consumer of storer of sugar such as a tuber or bulb
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What can storage organ acts as?
Both a sugar sink in the summer and sugar source in the winter
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What is pressure flow?
Phloem sap that moves through a sieve tube element by bulk flow driven by positive pressure
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How is phloem a "superhighway"?
By it allowing for rapid electrical communication b/w widely separated organs
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What influence plasmodesmata to open or close?
- turgor pressure - cytoplasmic calcium levels - cytoplasmic pH
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