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1
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What are the two broad systems that specialized tissues and structures in plants make up?

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Shoot system and root system

2
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What does the shoot system primarily consist of?

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Leaves, stems, reproductive structures (like flowers, fruit, seeds)

3
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What does the root system consist of?

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Roots

4
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What are leaves in plants?

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The mostly flat green parts of plants

5
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What is the flat part of a leaf called?

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Lamina, or leaf blade

6
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What is the part of the leaf that attaches to the stem?

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Petiole, or leaf stalk

7
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Why are leaves typically large and flat?

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To expose as many chloroplasts to sunlight as possible

8
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What is the role of a leaf?

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Where photosynthesis happens, and it’s involved in the transpiration of water

9
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Example of leaf with specialized functions (result: weird shape/colour)

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Pine needle

10
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What are the red flowers in the Poinsettia plant actually?

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Specialized structures called bracts

11
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In the Poinsettia plant, where are the actual flowers? What do they look like?

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Between the bracts, small and yellow

12
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What are bracts?

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Specialized leaves that attract pollinators like bees and birds to flowers

13
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What do pollinators’ pollen contain, which is useful for flowers

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The sperm, which they transfer from flower to flower

14
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Describe stems in plants.

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Structure that forms the core of the shoot system

15
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What are the two parts that stems are divided into?

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Nodes and internodes

16
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What are nodes?

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Where buds grow into leaves, other stems, or flowers

17
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What are internodes?

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The parts of stem between nodes

18
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Most plant stems are found: above-ground or below-ground

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Above-ground

19
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Example of a plant whose stems are below-ground

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Potato plant

20
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What is the part of the potato plant we eat called? What is it?

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Tuber, it’s a specialized underground stem which stores the plant’s nutrients

21
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What is the role of a stem?

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Provide support for plant; place for leaves, flowers, fruit to grow; keeps leaves facing the sun; transport water and nutrients up from roots; transport products of photosynthesis down from leaves; store nutrients

22
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What are some human uses for plant stems?

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Sugar from sugar cane stems, making maple syrup from maple tree stems (trunks), paper and wood, cinnamon from cork, cork from bark (outer layer of tree stems)

23
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Define bark.

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The outer layer of tree stems

24
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What is a trunk in plants?

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The stem of a tree

25
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What is the root system?

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System of structures usually found below ground

26
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What is the role of roots?

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To anchor plant to ground; take up water & minerals needed for growth and development; store food, nutrients; provide means of reproduction called vegetative reproduction (asexual)

27
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Roots need oxygen even though they’re usually below-ground. How do they get this?

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From the oxygen found naturally between grains of soil.

28
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What happens to roots if the surrounding soil is saturated (filled with water) and oxygen is forced out?

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The plant will start to produce roots aboveground

29
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Roots can have three different general shapes. What are these and their actual names?

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Thin and hairlike (fibrous), short and thick (taproots), somewhere in between (e.g., buttress roots)

30
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Plants can reproduce two ways. Name them and elaborate.

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Asexually (offspring have one parent) - E.g., green algae by fission (splitting) and fragmentation (breaking apart)
Sexually (offspring have parents from each sex) by releasing gametes (reproductive cells)

31
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What are spores?

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Reproductive cells than can procreate without fusing with another cell (unlike seeds that form when gametes join)

32
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Give a synonym for fission.

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Splitting

33
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Give an explanation of fragmentation.

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Breaking apart

34
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Spores have everything they need to grow into a _____ _____

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Multicellular plant

35
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Spores will grow under _____ conditions.

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Good

36
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Where are spores found in? Give examples

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Non-seed bearing plants like green algae, mosses and ferns

37
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Where are spores often located on? How are they carried around?

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Underside of leaves, carried around by wind/rain

38
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What is an advantage and a disadvantage of spores?

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Less likely to be eaten by animals than seeds, but in danger of consumption from bacteria and fungi

39
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What do flowers provide in terms of reproduction?

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A way for sperm to find eggs, leading to fertilization, developing seeds

40
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What are sepals in plants?

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Green structures surrounding flower

41
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What are petals in plants?

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Inside sepals, modified leaves that serve similar function as bracts (attract pollinators)

42
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What are stamens in plants?

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Inside petals, contain filament with pollen-producing cells

43
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What is a carpel in plants?

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Inside stamens, contains ovary (where egg is)

44
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What needs to happen for a seed to start developing in a flower?

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Another flower’s pollen must enter the ovary, and fertilize ovule

45
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What are seeds?

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Embryonic plants enclosed in protective seed coats

46
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What are embryonic plants?

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Immature plants

47
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What does the endosperm contain in a seed?

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Stored nutrients, rich in oil, starch, protein

48
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How can seeds be dispersed?

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Wind (if seed is light/structured specifically; water; animals (can have barbs to attach, or be eaten and dispersed by droppings)

49
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Are spores more advanced than seeds?

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No, seeds are more advanced than spores

50
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Where are seeds present in? What are these seeds covered in?

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Gymnosperms (covered by cones’ scales), and angiosperms (covered with fruit)

51
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What are cones?

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Parts of conifers that contain reproductive structures

52
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Female cones produce ____

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Ovules

53
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Are male cones larger or smaller than female cones? What do male cones do?

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Smaller, produce pollen (yellowish powder)

54
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What does pollen look like?

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A yellowish powder

55
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What do ovules become when fertilized with pollen?

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A seed

56
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Male and female cones are usually on the same plant. Are females on higher or lower branches than males? Why?

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Higher, it prevents self-fertilization so that pollen of one conifer is likely to be carried by wind to female cones of different conifer

57
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What is fruit and where are they only found?

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The result of maturation of one or many flowers, only in angiosperms

58
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What is fruit in cooking?

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And sweet plant product

59
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What is fruit in botany?

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The ripened ovary of a seed bearing plant containing the seeds

60
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What is the ovary wall in a seed also called?

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The pericarp

61
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What happens in angiosperms as a seed develops?

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The ovary ripens and ovary wall becomes either fleshy (like apples & berries) or forms a hard covering (like nuts)

62
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Give examples of fruit that is considered fruit botanically.

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Beans, corn, tomatoes, peanuts, cucumbers, rice…

63
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What are autotrophs, as in what do they do? What are they unique to?

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Self-feeding, unique plant feature, make their own food from inorganic materials through photosynthesis

64
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What are heterotrophs, as in what do they do? Give an example.

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Get food from outside of itself, ex. humans

65
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Thoroughly define photosynthesis.

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Process in which plants convert light energy captured by chloroplasts to chemical energy needed for survival

66
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What do chlorophyll pigments use to form carbohydrates? What do these carbohydrates do?

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They use water & carbon dioxide from air, carbohydrates store energy

67
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What are carbohydrates?

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Compounds including all simple and complex sugars

68
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Give an example of a simple sugar.

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Sucrose

69
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Give two examples of complex sugars.

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Starch and cellulose

70
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Where are carbohydrates stored in plants (give three)

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Leaves and stems (potatoes), fruit (as pectin), roots (carrots)

71
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What is respiration the opposite of?

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Photosynthesis

72
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What is the process of respiration in plants?

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Oxygen reacts with sugar in plant cell, releasing the sugar’s chemical energy. This is transferred to a new molecule called ATP, which is then transported around cell, performing tasks. This process releases carbon dioxide and water.

73
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What is ATP?

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Adenosine triphosphate

74
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Unlike photosynthesis, respiration can happen both _____.

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day and night

75
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What is transpiration in plants?

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Term for evaporation of water from the surface of leaves and stems

76
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What is transpiration a necessary part of?

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Photosynthesis and respiration

77
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Water produced through respiration exits the plant through _____. Define this word.

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Stomata, small pores in leaf that open and close

78
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What does the stomata do that is necessary for photosynthesis?

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Lets carbon dioxide enter plant

79
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How does water initially enter a plant through the roots? How does it travel through the plant and how does it exit?

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By osmosis, water travels up plant through xylem, exits leaf through stomata

80
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How do plants conserve water when it’s limited? What is the outcome of this? What, then, does the plant use to operate?

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Plant closes stomata, decreases water evaporation, but also decreases amount of carbon dioxide that can enter the cell. Decreased rates of photosynthesis, slowing growth. Can use stored energy

81
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Since plants can’t move to find energy/water, how have the adapted ways to supply their needs?

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Balance between water and nutrient uptake in roots, and energy uptake in leaves. Plant cell and plant body’s anatomy allow plants to react to various habitats