Flashcards in Corn, Plant Growth and Tissues Deck (37)
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What is an example of an annual monoecious monocot that is grown in square mile fields in the midwest?
Corn
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What are the male reproductive organs of corn known as?
Tassals
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What are the female reproductive organs known as?
Husk, silk, the ova and supporting husk
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If not all strand of silk are fertilized, what will occur?
Imperfect ears missing kernals
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What is a plant that grows, reproduces, then dies all in one year?
Annual-corn is an example
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What is a plant that lives for many years called?
A Perennial
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What are the 3 types of plant tissue (General) and what are they for?
Epidermal-protection
Ground-Storage and support
Vascular-Transport
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What are considered the epidermal tissues?
Roots, Stems, Leaves
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What kind of cells do the root epidermal tissue contain?
Acid Cells
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What are the three types of Ground tissue?
Parenchyma, Collenchyma, Sclerenchyma
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What does Parenchyma do?
Juice and Starch support
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What does Collenchyma do?
for flexible support
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What does sclerenchyma?
for firm support
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What does xylem do?
Water transport
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What does Phloem do?
Sugar transport
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Where is primary plant growth taking place?
Lengthwise, occuring at tips of roots and stems
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Where is secondary plant growth taking place?
Diameter wide growth
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What is responsible for primary growth?
Apical and Root meristems
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What is responsible for secondary growth?
Cambium Tissue
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What are the three parts to external leaf structure?
blade, Veins, and Petiole
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What is the petiole?
Attaches the blade to the stem
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What does the epidermis of the leaf contain on the underside for gas exchange?
Stomas
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What are palisade cells and where are they located?
Palisade cells are tightly packed cells on the top of the leaf
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What are spongy cells and where are they located?
Looser packed cells on the bottom of the leaf
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What is a pith?
Starch storing ground tissue in Monocots and Annual Eudicots
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In Annual Eudicots, how is the vascular tissue arranged?
in a circle around outside of stem
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What is the epidermis of Perennial Eudicots?
Bark or cork
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What produces new bark or cortex cells?
Cork Cambium
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What are the photosynthesising cells under bark?
Cortex
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