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| terrestrial plants adaptations |
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| roots-obtain water and nutrients |
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| obtain water and nutrients, anchorage |
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| gametophyte example and type |
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| pine trees, sporophytes with tiny gametophytes in cones |
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| flowering trees, sporophytes with tiny gametophytes in flowers |
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| parts of flower: sepals, petals, stamen, carpel |
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sepal-base of flower
petal-just above sepal
stamen-stalk plus anther, produces pollen
carpel-stalk with sticky stigma where sperm tube grows to fertilize egg |
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| parasitic fungi diseases on plants |
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| dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, and ergots |
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| parasitic fungi harm people |
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| athletes foot, lung diseas, ringworm, yeast infections |
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| mushrooms, blue cheese, yeast, antibiotics |
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| more than doubled yield of wheat bt 1940-1980 |
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| 2 main types of angiosperms |
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monocots- one embryonic seed leaf(orchids, bamboo, palms)
eudicots-most angiosperms, 2 embryonic leaves |
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| underground, absorption, storage |
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above ground, stem attaches leaves
leaves-photosynthesis
buds-terminal at tip, axillary in between root and stem |
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| terminal control growth of axillary buds with hormones |
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| terminal control growth of axillary buds with hormones |
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xylem-brings water and nutrients up
phloem-brings sugar from leaves to plant |
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xylem-brings water and nutrients up
phloem-brings sugar from leaves to plant |
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| covered with wax-prevents water loss |
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| fungi that colonize roots of plants and provide water and nutrients |
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| primary growth vs secondary growth |
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| primary-lengthens roots and shoots |
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increases girth of woody plants
cork cambium and vascular cambium |
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| divides and prodcues xylem |
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| sexual plant reproduction |
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anthers and ovules-site of meiosis
pollination-pollen lands on stigma
fertilization- pollen tube grows to embryo sac and sperm fertilizes |
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| asexual plant reproduction |
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