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Plants
All about the way plants work.
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Biology
9th Grade
10/05/2007

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auxin
Definition
Produced in the apical meristem and stimulate cell elongation, restricts lateral growth, and apical dominance. It is involved in phototropism and gravitropism.
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Cytokinins
Definition
Produced in growing roots and developing fuits and seeds.Stimulates cell division, and growth of lateral buds causes dormant seeds to sprout.Cells elongate.
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gibberrellins
Definition
Produced in seed tissue. It causes increase in size in stem and fruit. Responsible for early growth.
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ethylene
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Produced in fruit. Stimulates ripening.
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Plants
Definition
Multicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls made of cellulose.Develop from multicellular embryos and carry out photosynthesis using the pigments chlorophyll a and b.
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Sporophyte
Definition
Spore producing plant. Also is the diploid phse of a plant. (2N)
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Gametophyte
Definition
Haploid phase of a plant's life. (N) Gamete producing plant.
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What plants need to survive:
Definition
The lives of plants center on the need for sunlight, water and minerals, gas exchange, and the transport of water and nutrients throughout the plant body.
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Where did the first plants evolve from?
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The first plants evolved from an organism much like the multicellular green algae living today.
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Bryophytes
Definition
Mosses and their relatives. Bryophytes have life cycles that depend on water for reproduction. Lacking vascular tissue, these plants can draw up water by osmosis only a few centimeters above the ground. Low growing and found in moist shaded areas. Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
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Rhizoid
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Long, thin cells that anchor some bryophytes into the ground.Absorb water and minerals from the surrounding soil.
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Gemmae
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In liverworts, small multicellular reproductive structures.
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What is the dominant recognizable stage in a bryophyte and that carries out most of the plant's photosynthesis?
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Gametophyte.
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