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10/05/2011

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Stem Epidermis
Definition
Transparent so sunlight can penetrate
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Young Stem Epidermis
Definition
One cell
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Old Stem Epidermis
Definition
Replaced by cork cells (outer most layer of bark)
Term
*Monocot Stems
Definition
-No ring of vascular bundles
-No organized pith
-No vascular cambium
-No cork camdium
Term
*Dicot Stem
Definition
-Organized ring of vascular bundles
-ground tissue is located between epidermis and vascular tissue
-Pith is in center
Term
Why don't monocots have a cortex?
Definition
-No cortex because they don't grow big stems
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Role of Dicot Stem Pith
Definition
-store ground tissue cells
-Found in center of stem
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Monocot Vascular Bundles
Definition
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Sclerenchyma Support Fibers
Definition
-May support vascular bundle
-Fibers have a thiick 2* cell wall that provides strength and rigidity
-Located closest to epidermis
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Phloem
Definition
-Transports dissolved sucrose under positive pressure
-Pushed along versus drawn up
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Metabolic Sink
Definition
-Phloem is the phloem tube will move anywhere within a plant where it is being utilized or stored
-Unlike the movement of water
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Phloem Sieve Cells
Definition
-alive at maturity, but lack nuclei so can't divide
-connecting cell walls are perforated by sieve pores~50% of the area
-Live only one year and must be replaced each season
Term
*Phloem Companion Cell
Definition
-Companion cells regulate the loading and unloading of sucrose from sieve elements
-Each sieve element is closely
-Transports sucrose in sieve element
-Transport takes ATP
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Sugar Transport in Phloem
Definition
-Sucrose is sythesized by leaf chrenchyma
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*Transportation of Sucrose
Definition
-Sucrose draws water into sieve element by osmosis, raises turgor pressure and pushes sucrose toward sink
-Active Transport Process
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Active Transport Process
Definition
-Needs ATP
Term
WTF is an Aphid
Definition
-bitch ass bug that sucks sucrose rich sap from sap
-proved contents are under pressure and forced through the aphid booty hole as dew
Term
Sucrose
Definition
30%sugar
Term
*Primary Growth
Definition
Elongation of roots and shoots
Term
*Secondary Growth
Definition
-caused by division on lateral meristems
-vascular cambium: xylem and pholem
-cork cambium
Term
Vascular Cambium*
Definition
-inactive in autum and winter
-stimulated by auxin in spring
Term
Cutin
Definition
Waxy layer to restrict water loss
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Vascular Bundles in Stems
Definition
Term
*Cork Cells
Definition
-Dead, suberized, imperable to water
-no intercellular spaces
-as many of 40 layers
Term
*2* Cortex Cells
Definition
-living, only have primary cell wall
-not suberized
-Many intercelluar spaces tp allow gas exchane
-Go through celluar respiration
Term
Cellular respiration*
Definition
Mitochondria
-Glucose+oxygen=Co2
Term
Lenticels*
Definition
-Raised, localized areas loosely packed cork cells
-gas exchange to living cells of stem occurs
Term
*living cells in stem
Definition
-cork cambium
-cortex cells
-Vascular cambium
-2* phloem
Term
Softwood
Definition
-mostly gynosperms, mostly temperate evergreens
-pine, sprucem larch, fir, and redwood
-do not make flowers
-softwood xylem composed of only tracheids
Term
Resin Canals
Definition
-Softwood of gymnosperms
-went stem gets damaged, resin leaks to repair
Term
Hardwoods
Definition
-Temperate and tropical trees (seed-producing, flowering) e.g. oak, maple, ash, walnut, etc.
-contain xylem tracheids and vessels
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heartwood
Definition
-interior is dark due to resin and gums
-empty xylem tubes
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sapwood
Definition
-sapwood is light outer layer transports water and minerals
Term
tree rings (growth rings)*
Definition
-ring width decreases with age
-length stays the same
Term
*Bark
Definition
-all tissues outside vascular cambium
-consist of 2* phloem, 2* cortex, cork cambium, cork
Term
Suberin
Definition
waxy lipid
Term
Palm Trees
Definition
-tree-like, but actually monocots that do not have 2* growth
-Just behind the apical meristem, there is intense cellular division
-This produces primary thickening and an increase in diameter of the stem
Term
Banana Plant
Definition
-Not a tree
-Large overlapping leaf bases form the "stem"
-The stem is underground growing horizontally
-flowing plants
Term
Cladophylls
Definition
photsythetic, flat, leaf like stems
Term
Stem Epidermis Modification
Definition
-prickles of raspberries
Term
*Bulbs
Definition
-Bulbs have short little stems
-rosette stems surrounded by fleshy nutrient storing leaves
-Adventitious Roots
-Onions, lillys
Term
*Rhizomes
Definition
grow horizontally near surface
-e.g Iris, canna, begonia, ginger
-Adventitious root
Term
Tubers
Definition
-develops off rhizome
-swollen, underground, energy-storing stems
-e.g. irish potatoes are tubers that grow on rhizomes
Term
Corms
Definition
short, vertical, underground stems that store nutrients
Term
*Transpiration
Definition
Term
*Pericycle of the Root Stele
Definition
-Branch roots grow from it
Term
Stele Vascular tissues
Definition
-Xylem and phloem
-Between lobes are xylem cells
Term
Monocot Root Vascular Tissue
Definition
-Ring of vascular tissue surrounding a pith it parenchyma
Term
2ndary growth in Dicot Roots*
Definition
-Vascular cambium differentiates from the cells between the primary xylem an dprimary phloem

-Cork Cambium differentiates from the pericycle

-Cork prevents absorption of water; roots with 2ndary growth only anchor the plant
Term
*Forensics and 2ndary growth in roots, (two ways)
Definition
-Used to determine minimum time elapsed since death
Term
Haploid
Definition
-multicellular plant in which each cell has only 1copy of each chromosome
Term
Diploid
Definition
-multicellular plant in which each cell has 2copies of each chromosome
Term
*Roots vs Fungi relationship
Definition
Mycorrhizae are fungi associated with many plant roots:
-Fungi absorb dissolved minerals from soil for plant
-Plant provides sugars for fungus
Term
*Mycorrhizzae Function
Definition
-help mineral absorption
-citrus tree and gymnosperms are difficult to grow without it
-crop yields increase corn 100, wheat 200, and onions 3,000
Term
Rubisco
Definition
-Protein that fixes CO2
-uses CO2 to make sugar molecules carbon fixatio
Term
Fleshy Taproots
Definition
-dandelion
Term
Flesh Fibrous Root
Definition
-sweet potatoes
Term
Anchoring Roots
Definition
-Adventitious roots
Term
Prop Roots
Definition
Adventitious groups that grow from and support the stem
-corn has a fibrous root system underground
Term
Epiphytes
Definition
Plants evolved to live entirely abovegorund e/d/ many orchards

-many are found in rainforest

-from adventitious aerial roots from stems
Term
Spanish moss
Definition
-An angiosperm
-No roots
-water and nutrients are absorbed by hairs on stems ad leaves
Term
Nitrogen
Definition
-Needed to make nucleic acids and proteins
-A few soil bacteria e.g. RHizobium. contain the unique enzyme nitrogenase
Term
Mitosis
Definition
Cell Division
Term
Meiosis
Definition
Division that reduces the number of chromosomes rom diploid to haploid
Term
The evolutionary species concept
Definition
-A species is a group of organism with a comon evolutionary lineage
Term
Cladogram for angisperms
Definition
lets you look at the ancestory of a plant
-Dicots:
Magnoliids
Tricolpates
Paleoherbs
Monocots
Paleoherbs
Term
Speciation
Definition
-New species evolve from preexisting species as populations adapt to local environmental conditions

-Isolated population of same species randomly accumulae different mutatuions
-->reproductive isolation
Term
Mutations
Definition
-Ultra violet rays cause mutations in DNA
-Mutations are random
-Slight change in color or chemical attraction
Term
Bract
Definition
Modified leaf functioning as if it were a peddle
Term
Cycads
Definition
Term
Corolla
Definition
Term
Speciation by Polyploidy
Definition
-Polyploid plants have more than 2N# of chromosomes
-Polyploidy may result from non-disjunction of chromosomes during meiotic division
-35% of flowering plants species are polyploid
Term
Hybridization and Chromosome
Definition
-Hybrid: Offspring from parents or different generic backgrounds
-CHromosome doubling caused by non-disjunction during meiosis
Term
Bread Wheat
Definition
-Triticum aestivum, is the most cultivated crop in the world
-hybridization between einkorn wheat and goat grass
Term
Evolution of domestic wheat
Definition
-hybridization between einkorn wheat and goat grass
-Doubling
Term
Wheat Emmer
Definition
Term
Polyploid Plants
Definition
Polyploidy--> Larger size, thicker leaves, increased water retention, larger flowers
Term
Evolution of Land Plants
Definition
-oldest fossils are bacteria that lived 3.8 bya
-first photosynthetic organism evollved 2.5bya and were smilar to cyanobacteria
-changed the earth by releasing oxygen into the atmosphere
Term
*Transpiration
Definition
Term
*Cork Cells
Definition
Term
Evolutonary Advances of Plants
Definition
-plants retain embryo (2n) within cells of parent
-Parents nourish the embryo )most algae do not)
-Higher plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms, produce seeds containing the embryo
-Angiosperms produce fruits
Term
Evolutonary Advances of Plants
Definition
-plants retain embryo (2n) within cells of parent
-Parents nourish the embryo )most algae do not)
-Higher plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms, produce seeds containing the embryo
-Angiosperms produce fruits
Term
Evolutonary Advances of Plants
Definition
-plants retain embryo (2n) within cells of parent
-Parents nourish the embryo )most algae do not)
-Higher plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms, produce seeds containing the embryo
-Angiosperms produce fruits
Term
Evolutonary Advances of Plants
Definition
-plants retain embryo (2n) within cells of parent
-Parents nourish the embryo )most algae do not)
-Higher plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms, produce seeds containing the embryo
-Angiosperms produce fruits
Term
Colonizaion of land
Definition
-first land dwellers resembled primitive mosses and liverworts (bryophytes)
-moist required moist habitat
Term
*Adventitious Roots
Definition
Term
Vascular Plants
Definition
-evolved t allow plants to occupy drier habitats-ferns and fern allies
Term
Vascular Plants
Definition
-evolved t allow plants to occupy drier habitats-ferns and fern allies
Term
*Parts and functions of roots
Definition
functions: absorbs water, and minerals, anchorage of plant, storage of minerals, conduction of water and solutes
Term
Flavonoid Pigments
Definition
Term
Cyanobacteria
Definition
Term
Algae
Definition
-First eucaryotic cell
-photosynthetic eukaryotes
-Green algae are most diverse
Term
*Plant tissues that makes up cortex and pith
Definition
Term
*Vascular tissue of gymno sperms versus angiosperms
Definition
Term
*Function of root systems
Definition
functions: anchorages plant, absorbs water and minerals, storage of minerals, conduction of water and solutes
Term
*stele of a root
Definition
Term
*Function of Pith Cells in a root
Definition
Term
*Fibrous root system
Definition
Term
Rhizobixan uses the enzyme __________ to_____
Definition
Term
Reproductive cells
Definition
-Jacket of Storage Reproductive cells to protect
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