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Yellow Jessamine
Learn the Taxonomy of Yellow Jessamine
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/09/2011

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Eukarya

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Plantae

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Anthophyta

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Dicotyledonae

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Gentianales

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Loganiaceae

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Gelsemium

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Gelsemium sempervirens

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Liana

 

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Long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support.

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Thigmotaxis/Thigmotropism

 

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A movement in which an organism moves or grows in response to touch or contact stimuli.

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Heterostyly

 

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A unique form of polymorphism and herkogamy in flowers in which two or three different morphological types of flowers, termed morphs, exist in the population.
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Pin

 

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The stamens are short and the pistils are long.

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Thrum

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The stamens are long and the pistils are short.

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Heterosis

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Hybrid vigor or outbreeding enhancement. It is the increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring.

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Cross Pollination

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Is promoted by heterostyly. When a bee lands on a pin morph, pollen gets on its head. When it lands on a thrum morph, pollen gets on its rear. This results in a transfer of pollen between pin and thrum.

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