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AP Biology
Chapter 32: Plant Growth and Development
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Biology
12th Grade
05/03/2011

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Germination
Definition
A process by which the embryo sporophyte resumes growth after a time of arrested development. Seed _____ coincides with seasonal rains.
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Aerobic Respiration
Definition
_____ provides the ATP required for growth of the seed.
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Growth
Definition
Refers to an increase in the number, size, and volume of cells. For plants, the mitotic cell divisions that increase the number of cells take place only at meristems. In some cases, meristematic cells never differentiate and for that they keep dividing and making new cells.
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Development
Definition
When cells divide, lengthen or widen in certain directions, and become different in composition and function as a result of selective gene expression.
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Fluid (Turgor) Pressure
Definition
_____ builds up against their still-soft, primary wall.
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Signaling Molecules
Definition
_____ interact and control what happens in different tissues. They also function in plant defenses- one of them being salicyclic acid.
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Environmental Cues
Definition
_____ also guide plant growth and development. Ex: water availability, the hours of darkness vs daylight, gravity, and temperature.
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Specialized Tissues
Definition
____ form as a plant grows and develops, its diverse cells increase in number, size, and volume.
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Plant Hormones
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the 5 major classes of these are gibberellins, auxins, cyokinins, ethylene, and abscisic acid. These _____ interact in ways that stimulate or inhibit growth and development.
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Gibberellins
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Acidic compounds synthesized in seeds and young shoot tissues. As seeds germinate, _____ induce primary roots and shoots to grow.
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Auxins
Definition
Cells at apical meristems of roots and shoots produce _____. They are growth hormones. They are secreted in the lighted part of the plant and moves towards the dark region to cause the elongation of cells in that region.
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Abscission
Definition
Auxins help to prevent _____. It is the dropping of leaves, flowers, or fruits.
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Cytokinins
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_____ are also synthesized by animal cells. Their function is to signal cells to start dividing rapidly. ____ induce divisions in apical meristems and in maturing fruits.
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Ethylene
Definition
"Gaseous hormone" ____ can promote or inhibit cell growth so that tissues expand in in the most suitable directions.
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Abscisic Acid
Definition
A plant hormone that allows the plant to adjust to the outside stress it may encounter. Xylem movies _____ swiftly into leaves.
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Plant Hormones
Definition
Signaling molecules secreted by specific cells that alter activities in target cells. At specific times, they promote or arrest growth by stimulating or inhibiting cell division, elongation, differentiation, etc.
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Gravitropism
Definition
Any growth response to Earth's gravitational force.
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Statoliths
Definition
Modified plastids made denser by clusters of starch grains. Gravity-sensing mechanisms of many organisms are based on this.
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Phototropism
Definition
When light streams in from one direction only, a stem or leaf adjusts its rate and direction of growth so that it grows toward the light source. In plants, _____ it orients photosynthetic cells in ways that maximize light interception.
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Thigmotropism
Definition
In this response, auxin and ethylene induce plants to adjust the direction of growth if they contact objects.
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Photoperiodism
Definition
Refers to a biological response to alternations in the length of darkness relative to daylight during a circadian cycle. Ex: the number of hrs a plant spends in darkness and in daylight shifts with the seasons.
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Circadian Cycle
Definition
One that is completed in a period of about 24 hrs.
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Biological Clocks
Definition
Internal mechanisms that preset the time for recurring shifts in daily tasks or seasonal patterns of growth, development, and reproduction.
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Pytochrome
Definition
A blue-green pigment that functions as a receptor for red and far-red light. It's active form, Pfr, can induce gene transcription. The trigger for flowering.
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"Short-day" Plants
Definition
_____ flower in early spring or fall, when nights are longer than some.
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"Long-day" Plants
Definition
_____ flower in summer, when nights are shorter.
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Vernalization
Definition
Low-temperature stimulation of flowering.
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Dormancy
Definition
A period of arrested growth that will not end until the arrival of special environmental cues.
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Senescence
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Refers to the phase from full maturity until the eventual death of plant parts or the whole plant.
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