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Biology
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11/17/2009

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Stele
Definition
The primary vascular tissues and associated fundamenal tissue constitute the ___ of the stems and roots of vascular plants.
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Pericycle
Definition
The tissue that serves as the outermost boundary of the stele according to the stelar theory.
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Sterilization hypothesis
Definition
Hypothesis proposing that the pith is formed by certain cells of the procambium instead of tracheary elements.
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Protostele
Definition
The simplest and primitive type of stelar pattern in vascular plants.
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Plectostele
Definition
Type of stelar pattern composed of longitudinal plates or bands of primary xylem surrounded by primary phloem.
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Ecotophloic siphonostele
Definition
Type of stelar pattern characteristic of the stems of gymnosperms and dicots.
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Atactostele
Definition
Type of stelar pattern characteristic of the stems of monocotyledons.
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Dictyostele
Definition
The stelar pattern characteristic of ferns that consist of individual meristles and overlapping leaf gaps.
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Collateral and Bicollateral
Definition
The types of vascular bundles characteristic of a dissected ectophloic siphonostele.
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Protostele
Definition
The type of stelar patternm thought to have given rise to the stelar pattern in the stems of gymnosperms and dicots.
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Leaf Gap
Definition
A parenchymatous break in the primary vascular cylinder of the stem of a seed plant associated with a leaf.
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Two (Prophylls)
Definition
The typical number of bud (branch) traces per branch in most seed plants.
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A lacunar, 1-trace
Definition
The most primitive type of nodal pattern in vascular plants.
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Unilacunar, 1-trace and 2-traces
Definition
The primitve types of nodal patterns in megaphyllous plants.
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A-, Uni- (1-4 traces), Tri-, and Multi-lacunar
Definition
List all the types of nodal patterns that occur in vascular plants.
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