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Test 1
Lecture 1.1-1.6
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
02/17/2014

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Term
Angiosperms
Definition

Flowering plants

Contains embryo (germ),food,protection 

Thick Cell  walls 

Food stored in cotyledons or endosperm 

 

Term
Gymnosperms
Definition
Pine, fir, spruce
Term
Dicots
Definition

Most common (lima beans,peanuts)

 

Term
Monocots
Definition

grasses, grains, onions,palm 

food mainly in endosperm 

Term
6 uses of seeds
Definition

1 source of new plants

2 Food

3 Oil

4 Hight fructose corn syrup 

5 Ethanol 

6 Cotton 

Term
3 Parts of Grain
Definition

1 Germ- protiens, fats, vitiams  

2 Endosperm - starch 

3 Bran- fiber, vitaims 

Term
Beri-Beri
Definition
lack of b1(thymine) which is in bran
Term
Adventious Roots
Definition
Come from stems and leaves not from radicle
Term
Taproot
Definition
primary roots becaomes main root (carrot)
Term
Fiburous Grass Root
Definition

Grasses 

adventious roots

Term
Aerial Roots
Definition
starts as a branch
Term
Buttress Root
Definition
More substainal prop root
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Surface roots
Definition
root that should be underground but isnt
Term
Root Function
Definition

Achorage 

Storage-starch

Synthesis- nictoine

Absorption 

Term
Zone of Elongation
Definition
Middle stage. Area in plant roots where the cells push the tip deeper into the soil
Term
Zone of Maturation
Definition
Zone of cell division, where xylem pheolem and pith develop
Term
Root Cap
Definition
bottom of root, protect the growing tip of a root
Term
Rhizome
Definition
– underground horizontal stem
Term
Meristem
Definition

Plant body is produced by the action of localized regions of cell 

division

Term
Epidermas
Definition

Plant tissue type

absorb water and minerals

root hairs

Term
Vasscular Tissue
Definition

Plant Tissue water and nutrients support, and structural support 

 

Term
Ground Tissue
Definition

Plant tissue type storage and photosynthesis 

Parenchyma – photosynthesis, starch storage, new growth

Collenchyma – flexible support

Sclerenchyma – rigid support, fibrous

Term
Rosette plant
Definition
does not elongate, many leaves close to ground
Term
Bulb
Definition
modified leaves
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Tuber
Definition
– modified stem on rhizome
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