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Stems (80 cards)

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Grafting

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Artificially uniting stems or parts of stems

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Indeterminate Growth

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Plants can grow indefinitely

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A woody twig consists of

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an axis with attached leaves

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Alternately arranged

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Occurs when the leaves are attached to the twig alternately or in a spiral.

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Opposite arrangement

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If the leaves are arranged in pairs

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Whorled

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Groups of 3 or more leaves

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Node

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The area or region of a stem where a leaf or leaves are attached

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Internode

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Stem region between nodes

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Blade

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Flattened part of leaf

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Petiole

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A flexible stalk made of collenchyma cells that attaches leaf to stalk

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Each angle between a petiole and the stem contains a

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bud

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The angle is called an

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axil

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Axillary Bud

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the bud located in the axil

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Angiosperms

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flowering plants

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Axillary buds may become

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branches

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or, axillary buds may develop into

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the next season’s flowers

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Most buds are protected by

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bud scales

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Where is the terminal bud often located?

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At the tip of each twig

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Terminal buds do not become

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separate branches

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Meristems within the terminal bud

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Produce tissues that make the twig grow longer during the growing season

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Bud scale scars

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left behind when the scales fall off of a terminal bud

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What can you determine by counting the bud scale scars?

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Age of twig

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Stipules

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Paired, often leaflike appendages that remain throughout the life of the leaf.

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Stipule Scars

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are left behind if the stipules fall off of a twig.

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Deciduous trees and shrubs
lose their foliage annually
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Deciduous plants' axillary buds
often remain dormant with leaf scars below them after the leaves fall
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Bundle scars
mark the location of xylem and phloem, usually visible within leaf scar
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Apical Meristem
Tissue in which cells actively divide, found in the tip of each stem.
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Primordia/Primordium
Embryonic leaves that will develop into mature leaves after the bud scales drop off and growth begins
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Protoderm
gives rise to the epidermis, outermost of the three meristems developed from mitosis in the apical meristem
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Epidermis
typically one cell thick, usually becomes coated with a thin, waxy, protective layer called the cuticle.
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Procambium
Interior to the protoderm, Produces water conducting primary xylem and primary phloem cells that have several functions, including transportation of food.
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Ground Meristem
Produces two tissues composed of parenchyma cells
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Pith
Made up of the parenchyma tissue in the middle of the stem
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Cortex
Closer to the outside of the cell, eventually forms bark as it is pushed out
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Both the pith and the cortex function in
storing food, or if chloroplasts are present, manufacturing it.
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Primary tissues
Epidermis, primary xylem, primary phloem, pith and cortex
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As primary tissues are produced
the leaf primordia and bud primordia develop into mature leaves and buds
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Trace
A strand of xylem and phloem branches off from the vascular tissues cylinder, extending up or down the stem and entering the leaf or bud
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Each trace leaves a little thumbnail shaped gap in the cylinder of vascular tissue called
leaf gaps and bud gaps, both are filled with parenchyma tissue
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Vascular Cambium/Cambium
Cells in this area divide indefinitely.\
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The secondary tissues of the vascular cambium add to
girth
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Cells produced by the vascular cambium become
tracheids, vessel elements, fibers, or other components of secondary xylem
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Functions of the secondary tissues
Same as those of their primary counterparts, conduct food and water
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Cork Cambium/Phellogen
produces box like cork cells
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Cork cells become impregnated with
Suberin
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Suberin is a
waxy substance that makes cells impervious to moisture
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the cork cells are produced
annually in cylindrical layers, die shortly after formed.
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Phelloderm cells
Produced towards the inside of the cork cambium, parenchyma like cells.
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As woody stems age,
LENTICELS are formed underneath the stomata
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Stele
made up of primary xylem, primary phloem, and the pith
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Protostele
simplest form of stele, consists of a solid core of conducting tissues in which the phloem usually surrounds the xylem
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siphonosteles
tubular with pith in the center, common in ferns
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Eusteles
found mainly in present day flowering plants and conifers.
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Cotyledons
Seed leaves
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Dicotyledons
two cotyledons
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Monocots
Single cotyledon
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Annuals
die after one growing season, generally have green herbaceous stems
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Vascular bundles
comprised of patches of xylem and phloem
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Heartwood
Older, darker wood at the center of tree
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Sapwood
Lighter, still functioning xylem closest to the cambium
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Bark
All tissues outside of the cambium, including the phloem
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Laticifers
specialized ducts or cells found in about 20 families of herbaceous and woody flowering plants
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What do laticifers do?
form extensive branched networks of latex secreting cells originating from rows of meristematic cells
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Dicot stem cross section
more like a pie, big vascular bundles evenly spaced, identical cuts.
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Monocot stem cross section
Chocolate chip cookie, spaced out small vascular bundles surrounded by water storing parenchyma cells.
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Rhizomes
Horizontal stems that grow below ground, often near the surface of the soil
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Runners
horizontal stems that differ from rhizomes because they grow above ground, generally at the surface. They have long internodes
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Stolons
similar to runners but produce beneath the surface of the ground and tend to grow in different directions, usually not horizontally.
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tubers
internodes at the tips of stolons that swell from the accumulation of food.
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Bulbs
large buds surrounded by numerous fleshy leaves with a small stem at the lower end. stores food
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Corms
Similar to bulbs but have a papery outside, Gladiolus and crocus are examples
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Cladophylls
flattened and appear leaf like. | Cacti
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Thorns
an example of a modified stem
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Tendrils
Climbing parts of the stem that use anything they can touch to their advantage
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Density of wood
weight per unit of volume
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Durability
the ability to withstand elements and decay
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Knots
the bases of lost branches that have become covered over time.
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Adaxial
Upset surface of leaf
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Abaxial
Bottom surface of leaf. aBaxial-Bottom

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