Plants Flashcards
(171 cards)
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pterophytes are photosynthetic in which phases
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gametophyte and sporophyte
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water moves into the roots only if the soil’s water potential is less or greater
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greater
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cells have a blank water potential than fresh water soil
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lower
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what absorbs most of the plants water and provide great surface area
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root hairs
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what kind of fungi increase root surface area
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mycorrhizae
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what mineral does mycorrhizae help a plant uptake the most
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phosphorus
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xylem has a blank water potential than the root tissue
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lower
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water has blank strength which is why water can defy gravity in the xylem
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tensile
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water molecules blank to one another due to hydrogen bonds
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cohere
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water molecules blank to the walls of the xylem due to polarity
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adhere
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tensile strength of a water column varies blank with its diamater
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inversely
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what can break tensile strength
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air bubble
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xylem has a blank water potential than leaves
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higher
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water vapor leaves the leaf through the blank
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stoma
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the leaf has a blank water potential than the air
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higher
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what manages the rate of transpiration
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guard cells
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closing the stomata can control water loss on a blank basis because they must be open at some point to allow blank in
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short term and co2
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stomata close when
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high temps or increased co2 concentrations
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alternative photosynthetic pathways like cam blank transpiration
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reduce
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stomata opens when guard cells become
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turgid
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when solutes are pumped into guard cells it causes the water potential to blank
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decrease
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abscisic acid causes stomata to blank and causes water to blank because the water potentials blanks
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close, move out, increases
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water moves 1-4 in transpiration
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into roots, up xylem, into mesophyll in leaves, evaporates through stoma
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additional forces to move water other than transpiration
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root pressure
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root pressure causes blank
guttation
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what is guttation
dew
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root pressure is blank than transpiration
different
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three transport routes through cells
apoplast, symplast, transmembrane route
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movement through the cell walls and the space between cells
apoplast route
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cytoplasm connected by plasmodesmata
symplast route
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cytoplasm is connected by blank
plasmodesmata
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membrane transport between cells across the membranes of vacuoles within cells and permits the greatest control
transmembrane
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molecules must pass through the blank to reach the xylem
endodermal cells (casparian strip)
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what two things are essential for bulk transport of minerals
tracheids and vessels
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how much of plant water is lost to air through stomata
90 percent
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what two factors increase evaporation
temperature and wind velocity
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two adaptations of plants to limit water loss
dormancy, loss of leaves
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plants form these two things two adjust to being underwater
form larger lenticels and adventitious roots
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loose parenchymal with large air spaces that collect oxygen and transport it to submerged parts of plants
aerenchyma
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plants that grow in salt water are called
mangroves
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mangroves produce these air filled roots that have large lenticels
pneumatophores
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phloem loading is the process in which blank are transported through the plant and into the cells
sugars
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A body cavity
Coelom
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First opening of embryo is the mouth
Protostome
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First opening of the embryo is anus
Deuterostome
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Immobile hydras and sponges are called
Sessile
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This type of animal has epidermal and collar cells as well as amoebocytes
Sponges
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Protects sponges like glass and stiffens body walls
Spicules
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Spicules are what shape
Needle like
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Are sponges sessile or motile
Sessile
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Cnidarian with an upward pointing mouth
Polyp
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Cnidarian with a downward pointing mouth
Medusa
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Refers to a general light triggered development
Photomorphogenesis
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Are directional growth responses to light
Phototropisms
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A pigment containing protein
Phytochrome
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Phytochrome has two parts and they are
Chromophore and apoprotein
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Part of Phytochrome that is light receptive
Chromophore
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Part of phytochrome that initiates a signal transduction pathway
Apoprotein
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Two inconvertible forms of a phytochrome
Pr and Pfr
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Phytochrome that Absorbs red light at 660 nm and is found in sunlight
Pr
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Phytochrome that absorbs far red light at 730 nm and is found more in reflected light
Pfr
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Blank is the active form of phytochrome and blank is the inactive form
Pfr then Pr
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When Pr absorbs red light it converts to
Pfr
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Phytochrome that enters the nucleus and binds to transcription factors leading to the expression of light regulated genes
Pfr
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How many forms of phytochrome are there
Five
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Three plant growth responses that phytochromes are involved in
Seed germination, shoot elongation, and detection of plant spacing
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The bending of growing stems to sources of light with blue wavelengths 460 nm range
Phototropisms
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The response of a plant to the gravitational field of the earth
Gravitropism
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Shoots exhibit blank gravitropism
Negative
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Roots exhibit blank gravitropism
Positive
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Where is gravity sensed in a plant
Along stem in endodermal cells
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What are the signaling structures for a stem to respond to gravity
Amyloplasts sinking in cytoplasm
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Accumulates on lower side of stem due to amyloplasts position
Auxin
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Where is the site of gravity perception in roots
Cap
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Cells closer to gravity source grow blank
Less
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Permanent response to mechanical stress
Thigmomorphogenesis
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Directional response to mechanical stress
Thigmotropism
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Cells that have reversible changes in turgid pressure and respond to touch
Pulvini
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Some turgor movements are caused by blank to maximize photosynthesis
Light
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Dropping of leaves or petals
Abscission
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Two layers produced by hormones prior to abscission
Protective and separation
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Plants produce blank proteins when it's cold and blank proteins when it's hot
Antifreeze, heat shock
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This explains how plants can survive lethal temperatures if exposed gradually
Thermotolerance
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T or f plants do not produce hormones by glands
True
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Chemicals produced in one part of an organsim and transported to another part where they exert a response
Hormones
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Who discovered auxin
Charles and Francis Darwin
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Describe Darwin auxin experiment
Four groups. Control plant, lightproof cap plant, transparent cap plant, lightproof collar plant. Bending towards sunlight
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Who named auxin
Frits went
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Describe Frits went experment
Agar gel and diffused auxin out of tip into gel and put the gel with auxin onto tip of plant
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Who demonstrated that auxin migrates away to the shaded portion of the shoot
Winslow Briggs
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How did Briggs experiment work?
Inserted barriers in a shoot tip and it resulted in equal amounts of auxin in both the light and dark side of the barrier.
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Blank hypothesis provides a model linking auxin to cell wall expansion
Acid growth
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Produced in the root apical meristem's and developing fruits. they also stimulates cell division and differentiation they also promote the growth of Lateral branches
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This is the plant hormone has important effects on stem elongation. Adding these two dwarf mutants restores normal growth.
Gibberellins
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Gibberellins also hastens germination which makes blank
Bigger fruit
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Specialized stinging cells of jellyfish and hydras
Cnidocytes
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Te thing that actually does the stinging in stinging cells
Nematocysts
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Suspended animals that serve as food for larger ocean animals
Zooplankton
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The Sea anemone is a polyp or medusa
Polyp
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Cup coral is a polyp or medusa
Polyp
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Portuguese man of war is a medusa or polyp
Medusa
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Jellyfish is a polyp or medusa
Medusa
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Fee living flatworms are called
Planarians
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Do planarians have body cavities
No
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What kind of coelom do roundworms have
Pseudocoelom
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Common and abundant freshwater animals
Rotifera
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Ciliated wheel shape that Rotifers have
Corona
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Example of animal with no tissues
Sponge
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Example of animal with two tissues
Hydra
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Example of animal with three tissues
Planarian
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Any angle symmetry
Radial
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One cut symmetry
Bilateral
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Two adult forms of cnidarians
Sessile and motile
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Characteristic to designate groups of sponges
Type of spicule
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Do cnidarians have gastrovascular cavities
Yes
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A gas that retards growth in plants and ripens fruit
Ethylene
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Synthesized mainly in green leaves, fruits and root caps and it counteracts gibberellins and auxin
Abscisic acid
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Lack of abscisic acid causes seeds to grow where
Inside parents
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Before plants can form, they must undergo a blank
Phase change
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What happens when sea turtles are polluted with light
They don't make it to the ocean
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Four genetically regulated pathways to flowering that have been identified
Light dependent, temp dependent, gibberellin dependent, autonomous
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Pathway that is Also termed the photoperiodic pathway that is sensitive to the amount of darkness a plant receives in each twenty four hour period
Light dependent
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Obligate long or short day plants blank light to flower
In blank short or long day plants, time gets added up in order to flower Ad is not based on a set amount of light
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In blank short or long day plants, time gets added up in order to flower Ad is not based on a set amount of light
Facultative
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The plant uses the length of blank rather than blank to determine when to flower
Night, day
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If night is interrupted with a flash of light then how will the plant interpret it
As a full day
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A pathway that plants require. Of chilling before flowering called vernalization
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Pathway where gibber Ellen binds to gene promoters and enhances it it it's expression thereby promoting flowering this is a pathway
Gibberellin dependent
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What happens when there's a decrease in the amount of gibberellin
Flowering is delayed
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This pathway only depends on basic nutrition and it allows day neutral plants to count knows and remember node location
Autonomous
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A pathway where a plant needs a uniform number of nodes before flowering
Autonomous
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A model for flowering that proposes that three Organ identity gene classes specify the four whorls
The ABC model
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How many whorls does a complete flower have
Four
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In incomplete flower lacks what
A whorl
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Floral organs are thought to evolved from what
Leaves
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A flower structure that consists of flatten sepals
Calyx
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A flower structure that consists of fused petals
Corolla
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Flower structure that is a collective term for stamens and the stamen consists of a filament and enter
Androecium
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A flower structure that is a collective term for Carpell's a Carpell consists of an ovule ovary style and stigma
Gynoecium
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The blank generation is very small and completely enclosed within parent sporophyte
Gametophyte
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The male gametophyte is
Pollen grains
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The female gametophyte is
Embryo sac
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The micro gametophyte is
Pollen
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The Megagametophyte is
Embryo sac
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A microspore mother cell produces how many microspores
Four
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Each microspore develops by blank into A pollen grain
Mitosis
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A pollen grain consists of what
Tube cell and sperm cells
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A megaspore mother cell produces how many megaspores
Four
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How many megastores actually survive and what does this megaspore become
One survives and becomes embryo sac
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The embryo sac enlarges in undergoes repeated mitotic cell divisions to produce how many haploid nuclei
Eight
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The process by which pollen is placed on the stigma
Pollination
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Pollen from anther of one flower pollinates another flowers stigma
Cross pollination
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Name three pollinators
Bees butterflies and birds
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What kind of flowers do the three pollinators like
Bees yellow. Butterflies landing platforms. Birds red
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What kind of pollination is favored in stable environments
Self pollination
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Three evolutionary strategies that promote outcrossing in pollination
Separation of structures in time, separation of structures in space, and self incompatibility
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Dioecious and monoecious are examples of what evolutionary strategy
Separation of structures in space
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Known as dichogamus and stamens and carpels in the same flower reach maturity at the different times
Separation of structures in time
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Plants that require a chilling period before flowering
Vernalization
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When stamens and carpels of the same flower reach maturity at different times is called
Dichogamous
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An evolutionary strategy that the stigma recognizes and blocks the self pollen tube
Self incompatibility
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This cell forms a pollen tube that pierces the style
Tube cell
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It's cell divides to form two sperm cells
Generative cell
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Asexual reproduction where plant individuals are cloned from,parts of adults
Vegetative
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Oldest living tree is 4000 years old and is what kind of tree
Bristle cone pine
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Plants that are able to flower and Produce seeds and fruit for indefinite number of growing seasons
Perennial
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Plants that drop their leaves at a particular time of year
Deciduous
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Plants that drop their leaves throughout the year
Evergreen
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Plants that grow flower form fruits and seeds and typically died within one growing season
Annual
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The process that leads to the death of the plant after one season is called blank
Senescence
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Plants that have two year lifecycles and they store energy for the first year and flower the second year
Biennial
