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What are plant microbodies?

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  • peroxisomes

- Glyoxysomes

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What is the function of peroxisomes

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ROS release for plant immunity

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What is the function of Glyoxysomes

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Acetyl CoA production from fatty acids

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Why is it necessary for bacteria and plants to have strong cell walls?

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Bacteria: crucial protection from a hostile environmnent.
Plants: crucial support as sessile organisms.

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How do bacteria operate?

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Operate in large colonies creating biofilms

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What is a metzoan?

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A multicellular organism

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What are the 3 types of vegetative parts of a plant (non - flowering parts)?

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  • roots
  • Stems
  • Leaves
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Function of the root system

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take up of water, minerals e.g. nitrates (transpiration, capillary action, apoplastic and symplastic movement, osmotic pressure) UPWARDS

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Function of the stems system

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support vascular transport BOTH WAYS, prevent lodging

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Functions of the leaves system

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Photosynthesis, making of sugars and proteins

DOWNWARDS

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What are the 5 plant kingdoms?

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  • algae
  • Bryophytes
  • Pteridophytes
  • Gymnosperm
  • Angiosperm
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What do angiosperms have?

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  • fully enclose seeds which are flowering
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How are the angiosperms divided into groups?

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  • Monocots

- Dicots

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What are the qualities of monocots

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  • one cotyledon
  • veins are usually parallel
  • Vascular bundles usually complexly arrange
  • Fibrous root system
  • floral parts usually in multiples of 3
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what are the qualities of dicots?

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  • two cotyledons
  • Veins usually netlike
  • vascular bundles arranged in a ring
  • taproot usually present
  • floral parts usually in multiples of 4s or 5s
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What are the 3 functions of a root?

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  • Anchoring the plant
  • Absorbing water and minerals (e.g nitrates)
  • Storing carbohydrates (sucrose into starch)
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What is the primary root?

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  • first root emerging from a germinating seed
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Which plant types have a taproot system?

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  • most gymnosperms(pines) and eudicot angiosperms
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What is a taproot system?

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  • A taproot, the main vertical root

- Lateral roots, or branch roots, that arise from the taproot

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What type of root systems do monocots have?

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  • fibrous root system
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What is a fibrous root system?

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  • Adventitious roots that arise from stems or leaves

- Lateral roots that arise from the adventitious roots

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What are prop roots?

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  • supporting top heavy trees
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What are examples of prop roots?

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  • Hala trees that grow in sandy soils in the South Pacific
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What are Buttress roots

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Aerial roots that support the tree

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What are examples of buttress roots?
In tropical forests root systems of trees can be very shallow due to competition for resources.
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What are strangling aerial roots?
germinate in the branches of tall trees, send aerial roots to the soil. Eventually the “host” tree dies through shading
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What are pneumatophores?
negatively geotropic roots to obtain oxygen which is | lacking in thick estuarine mud
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What are the nodes and internodes in a stem?
nodes - the points at which leaves are attached | internodes - the stem segments between nodes
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What is an axillary bud?
bud has the potential to form a lateral shoot, or branch, tip of the plant
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What is an apical bud?
causes elongation of a young shoot, or part of it can differentiate to give rise to a reproductive organ
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What is an rhizome?
Horizontal shoots that grow just below the the soil surface
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What are stolons?
horizontal shoots that grow along the soil surface and allow asexual reproduction of plantlets at nodules along the stolon
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What are tubers?
Tubers are enlarged ends of rhizomes or stolons for storing food
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What are bulbs?
Bulbs such as this onion are vertical underground shoots that store food
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What do leaves generally consist of?
flattened blade and a stalk called the petiole, which joins the leaf to a node of the stem
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How do monocots and edicts differ In the arrangement of the veins?
Most monocots have parallel veins | Most eudicots have branching veins
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What are the 3 types of leaf?
- simple - compound - doubly compound
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What are tendrils?
Tendrils are modified leaves that plants such as this pea plant use to cling to objects. Once attached the tendril coils pulling the plant closer to the support.
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What are spines?
Spines are modified leaves and in this cactus.
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What are reproductive lectures?
Reproductive leaves of some succulents such as this Kalanchoe form adventitious plantlets that fall off and take root in the soil
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What are Bracts?
are modified leaves surrounding flowers. Some bracts are brightly colored and attract pollinators.
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What type of tissue doe each plant organ contain
- Dermal - Vascular - ground tissues
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What is dermal tissue?
A protective layer
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What is vascular tissue?
continuous transport system arranged differently in each organ
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What is ground tissue?
where most metabolic functions take place, macromolecules taken to other parts of the cell
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What are the two dermal tissue systems?
- non woody | - woody
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What forms the non woody parts dermal tissue?
Epidermis: single tissue Cuticle (waxy coating): prevents water loss Trichomes: diverse functions
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What forms the woody parts of the dermal tissue?
Periderm: several tissues Reinforced cell walls: lignin and suberin Complex polyphenols
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What tissues make up the vascular system?
- Xylem | - Phloem
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What does the xylem do?
Upward transport of water and dissolved minerals Lignin-reinforced walls
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What does the phloem do?
Transport of organic compounds
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How are the vascular tissues arranged in roots in eudicts vs monocots?
- Very small in the eudicots compared to monocots
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How are the vascular tissues arranged in stems in eudicots vs monocots?
eudicots- forms a ring of vascular bundles | monocots - stem with scattered vascular bundles
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What is internal to the vascular tissue?
The pith
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What is external to the vascular tissue?
cortex
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What are the types of ground tissue?
``` Usually unspecialized cell types Often give rise to dermal and vascular tissues Groups of cells specialized for: Storage, photosynthesis, support ```
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What are the 3 major types of ground tissues systems?
- Parenchyma - Collenchyma - Sclerenchyma
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What is another function of ground tissue?
Ground tissue gives rise to other tissue systems: - Water-conducting cells of the xylem - Sugar-conducting cells of the phloem

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