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What are the botanical disciplines?

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Plant Anatomy, Plant Physiology, Plant Taxonomy, Plant Ecology, Plant Morphology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Economic Botany, and Ethnobotany

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What are the attributes of living organisms?

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Growth, Reproduction, Response to Stimuli, Metabolism, Movement, Complexity of Organization, and Environmental Adaptation

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What is a molecule?

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Two or more atoms bound together

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What is a covalent bond?

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When two atoms complete their outermost energy level by sharing a pair of electrons

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What does nonpolar mean?

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Electrons are shared equally

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What does polar mean?

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Electrons are shared unequally (like water)

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What is an ionic bond?

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Electrons in the outermost orbital can be removed from one atom and transferred to another atom. When oppositely charged ions come into contact.

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What is a hydrogen bond?

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Forms as a result of attraction between positively charged hydrogen atoms in polar molecules and negatively charged atoms in other polar molecules

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What is the living substance of cells?

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Cytoplasm and structures within it

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What is 96% of a cell composed of?

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Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen

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Simple molecules and ions are converted to large, complex molecules through what?

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Metabolism

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What is a polymer?

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Formed when two or more small units called monomers bond together

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What controls the bonding of monomers?

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Enzymes

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What do polymers include?

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Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids

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What is the most abundant organic compound in nature?

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Cellulose

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What is in a carbohydrate?

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Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a ratio of CH2O

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What three basic kinds of carbohydrates are there?

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Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides

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What is a monosaccharide?

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A simple sugar with backbones of three to seven carbon atoms (glucose and fructose)

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What is a disaccharide?

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Formed when two monosaccharides bond together (ex., sucrose)

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What is polysaccharide?

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Formed when several to many monosaccharides bond together

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What forms can polysaccharides be in?

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Starch (coils of glucose molecules) and cellulose (unbranched chain of glucose molecules)

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What is the main carbohydrate reserve of plants?

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Starch

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What is the main structural polymer of plant cell walls?

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Cellulose

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What is a lipid?

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Fatty or oily substances that are mostly insoluble in water

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What do lipids do?
Store twice as much energy as carbs and it’s an important long-term energy reserve and structural component
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How are fats and oils produced?
One molecule of glycerol and three fatty acid molecules
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How many carbon atoms are in most fatty acid chains?
16-18
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What are waxes?
Lipids consisting of long-chain fatty acids bonded to a long chain alcohol, instead of glycerol
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What is a phospholipid?
Like fats, but one of the fatty acids is usually replaced by a phosphate group
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What do proteins do?
Regulate chemical reactions in cells
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What are proteins composed of?
Polypeptides
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What are polypeptides composed of?
Chains of amino acids
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What are amino acids composed of?
Amino group (-NH2), Carboxyl group (-COOH), R group (can vary from one hydrogen to a complex ring)
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What are distinctive for each of 20 amino acids?
R groups
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What order do polypeptides structures build in?
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary
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What is a polypeptide primary structure?
Sequence of amino acids bonded by peptide
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What is a polypeptide secondary structure?
Alpha helix or pleated sheet from hydrogen bonding
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What is a polypeptide tertiary structure?
Further coiling/folding maintained by R group interactions
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What is a polypeptide quaternary structure?
Association of multiple polypeptide to form a single protein
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What is an enzyme?
Large, complex proteins that are organic catalysts under specific conditions
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What are nucleic acids?
Large, complex polymers. Vital to internal communication and function.
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What kinds of nucleic acids are there?
DNA and RNA
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What does DNA consist of?
A double helix of repeating subunits of 4 kinds of nucleotides
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What do nucleotides consist of?
A nitrogenous base, five-carbon sugar, and a phosphate
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How is RNA different than DNA?
In its sugar and one nucleotide components, occurs as single strand, and is directly involved in protein synthesis
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What are the primary wall components?
Cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, and cell wall proteins
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What kind of polymer are cellulose and starch?
Glucose
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How do cellulose polymers form microfibrils?
They H-bond with one another
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What configuration does cellulose have?
Stiff rod-like, unbranched
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What is bundled together in microfibrils?
Cellulose
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How do microfibrils contribute to cell expansion?
They orientate randomly to expand or orientate parallel to constrain expansion
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What is the difference between apoplastic pahways and symplastic pathways?
Apo is through the cell wall Sym is through the cytoplasm
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What are cellulose and starch?
Glucose ## Footnote
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How do cellulose polymers form microfibrils?
They H-bond with one another ## Footnote
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What configuration does cellulose have?
Stiff rod-like, unbranched ## Footnote
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What is bundled together in microfibrils?
Cellulose ## Footnote
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How do microfibrils contribute to cell expansion?
They orientate randomly to expand or orientate parallel to constrain expansion ## Footnote
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What is the difference between apoplastic pathways and symplastic pathways?
Apo is through the cell wall, sym is through the cytoplasm ## Footnote
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What substances waterproof a leaf?
Cutin, suberin, other fatty substances ## Footnote
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How do cell walls create wood?
They thicken until they are dense and kill organelles ## Footnote

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