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Starch Grain

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Amyloplast

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Parenchyma Cells

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Metabolic Function/Storing Sugars

Pith/Vascular Rays/Cortex

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Primary Growth

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Apical meristem

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Lateral Growth

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Lateral meristem

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3 Parts of Stems and Roots

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Epidermis, Ground, Vascular (Xylem/Phloem)

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Deciduous

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Plant structures that fall off naturally at the end of a growing period.

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Perennial Plants

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Grow for more than two years

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Cork

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Produced by the cork cambium

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What tree does most cork come from?

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Cork Oak (Quercus suber)

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4 Root Functions

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  1. Anchorage
  2. Absorption
  3. Conduction
  4. Storage
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3 Things Roots Have?

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  1. Root cap to protect apical meristem
  2. No nodes
  3. Root hairs to absorb water
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Where to roots branch from?

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Grows from inside, not axillary buds

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Cell Walls

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Polysacrides

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Plasma Membrane

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Lipids and Proteins

Semi-permeable Membrane

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Mitochondria

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Makes product of chloroplast into usable energy

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Vacuole

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Empty space in cell (water)

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Nucleus

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Controls cell and holds DNA/chromosomes

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Xylem Cells

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Move water from roots to leaves and create wood

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Vascular Cambian

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Meristimatic tissue that produces xylem to the inside and phloem to the outside

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Phloem Cells

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Move sugars from leaves to roots

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Spring Wood

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Lighter rings, larger cells

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Summer Wood

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Darker rings, smaller cells

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Bark

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Everything outside the cork cambium

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Lenticels

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Perforations on the stem that allow for gas exchange

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Meristematic
Undifferentiated Cells
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Branches
Has meristematic tissue
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Binomial System of Nomenclature
The system we use to organize all living things
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Who created binomial nomenclature
Carl Linnaeus (Species Plantarum, 1753)
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Alternate names for plant species
Specific epithet
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Plant Communities
As assemblage of populations living in the same area
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Anthropogenic Community
Human Disturbance
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Biodiversity Hot Spots
Floristic Provinces
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Mediterranean Climate
Mild, wet winters and warm, dry summers
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Orographic Effect
Moist marine air cause precipitation on the western slopes
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Rain Shadow
Climate is drier of the lee slopes rather than the windward
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Thorn
Modified Branch
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Sessile
No Periole
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Stipule
Small leaves attached below petioles
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Prickle
Epidermal growth
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Spine
Modified Leaf
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3 Leaf Functions
1. Photosynthesis 2. Transpiration 3. Storage
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Stomata
Oxygen and water leave
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Inflorescence
A cluster of flowers in a specific arrangement
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Angiosperms
Produce Flowers
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3 Flower Functions
1. Communicate with others 2. Smell to attract animals 3. Nectar
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Pistillate Flowers
Female flower
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Staminate
Male flower
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Monoecious
Male and female on one plant but in different places
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Dioecious
Different plants have different male and female parts
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3 Parts of an Estuary
1. Freshwater 2. Saltwater 3. Protected
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Brackish
Salt and Fresh water mix
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Salt Water Marsh
1. Upper margin of estuary 2. Few and small 3. Mostly in Bay Area
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Halophitic
Salt Tolerant Plants
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Zonation
Haha
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Anaerobic
Lacking O2
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Aerenchyma Tissue
Allows for nutrients to go from roots to leaves
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Halophytes
Concentrate salt in their tissue
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Salt-excreters
Salt water on leaves
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Hummocks
Small stabilized dunes
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Blowouts
When a stabilized dune returns to being an active dune
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Lignotubers
Plants can re-sprout from this after fire
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Fire Cycle
10-50 year
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Obligate Seeders
Haha
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Forbs
Non-grassy herbaceous plants
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Perennial bunch grass
Pre-colonial grasses (native)
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Keystone Species
Important Species
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2 Parts of a Fig
1. Syconium | 2. Ostiole

Ecology (4 decks)

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