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| The name for the type of growth which comes from a lateral meristem such as the vascular cambium |
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| The name for the type of growth which comes from an apical meristem such as an apical bud. |
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| Common name for the male gametophyte of a seed plant. |
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What an incomplete flower and an imperfect flower would be. |
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The part of the ovule which develops into the seed coat. |
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| The four main types of tissues found in the higher plants and examples of each type. |
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| Fundamental, protective, vascular, meristomatic |
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| Definition for the term germination; and the requirements for it to occur. |
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| growing- moisture, oxygen, and right temperature |
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| Leaf-like structures that enclose and protect a flower bud; what these structures are called collectively. |
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| What fuses with the polar nuclei to form 3N endosperm in the angiosperms. |
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| The tiny opening in the ovule through which the pollen tube enters to discharge its contents. |
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| What a tap root, fibrous root, adventitious root, or propagation root system would be. |
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| tap root (dicots), fibrous root (multiple root), propagation root system (get a new plant from) |
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| The tissue within the leaf where most of the photosynthesis occurs. |
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| The structure which gives rise to both secondary xylem and secondary phloem. |
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| How an annual ring is formed |
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| Difference between sapwood and heartwood. |
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| Age- sapwood is newer, heartwood is more expensive |
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| Function of stomates and lenticels; where each are found. |
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| Name of cells that surround the stomates. |
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| What cells the cortex region of the root is made up of and adapted for. |
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| parychema cells- storage and support |
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| What the pericycle, endodermis, hypodermis and pith of a root would be. |
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| pericycle (separates vascular cylinder), endodermis(separates paracycle from cortex), hypodermis (separates cortex from epidermis) and pith (center parychema cells) |
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| The three parts of the biotic enviroment. |
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| producers, consumers, decomposers |
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| Definitions for the terms food chain and food web |
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food chain- transferring energy from eating or being eaten
Food web- interlocking patterns of food chains |
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| Which trophic levels the following belong in: producers, herbivores and carnivores. |
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producers- 1st
herbivores- middle
carnivores- top |
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| The meaning of abiotic and biotic parts of the environment |
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abiotic- non living
biotic- living |
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| Some of the major consequences a ―Run-away Greenhouse Effect‖ could have on the earth |
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| malaria, crowding of species, severe storms |
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| What role the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) play in the loss of the ozone in the stratosphere. |
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| comes from freeon- its a solvant |
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| How many chlorine atoms does it take to destroy up to 100,000 molecules of ozone? |
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| Definition for the term humus. |
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| dead plant and animal remains |
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| The three layers of the atmosphere |
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| trophosphere, stratosphere, ionisphere |
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| The two habitats on earth where the richest animal life is seen. |
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| estuaries, and coral reefs |
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| Where the longest coral reef is found. |
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| What characteristic of water prevents it from freezing solid in a lake? |
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| It freezes at zero, it gets dense at 4 degrees (sinks to warm up) |
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| The essential organs for reproduction in a flowering plant |
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| An adaptation of seed plants that allows fertilization to occur without the aid of water. |
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| The part of the embryo plant that develops into the first leaves, the stem and the root of the sporophyte |
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| epicotle, hypocotle, and radicle |
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Process by which spores of a seed plant are produced. |
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| Chromosome number for the endosperm of an angiosperm, and the zygote within the embryo sac. |
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| Term used to designate all the petals collectively. |
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| . Part of the seed plant adapted to catch pollen. |
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| Are the microgametophyte & megagametophyte of a seed plant independent or dependent upon the sporophyte plant. |
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| How reproduction in a fern and a seed plant differs as to number of spore types formed; in other words are they homosporus or heterosporus. |
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fern- homosporus
seed plant- heterosporus |
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| What part of the stamen the pollen grains are formed within of a seed plant. |
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| What structure the sperm cell of a seed plant reaches the egg cell through |
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| Function of the funiculus |
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| The relationship of the fruit to the ovary and the seed to the ovule in seed plants |
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fruit- mature ovary
ovule- immature seed |
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| What adaptation the ripened ovary of a ―Touch- Me- Not‖ or ―Jewelweed‖ plant is used for ? |
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By Using The Numbers 1 Through 10, Rearrange The Following In The Order They Would Occur In A Three Year Old Woody Stem. (Start With The Innermost Tissue As Number One)
Vascular Cambium, Pith, Cork Cambium, Epidermis, Primary Xylem, First Annual Ring, Phloem, Second Annual Ring, Third Annual Ring and Cortex |
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1-pith
2-primary xylem
3- 1st annual ring
4- second annual ring
5- thierd annual ring
6- vascular cambium
7-phloem
8-cortex
9-cork cambium
10-epidermis |
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| It is often said by ecologists that one individual living in a developed country such as the US cannot be counted as ecologically equal to one individual from a developing country. Why? |
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| Commercials on TV use food and sex as their most attractive selling points. Explain how flowers use the same two attractants to ―sell‖ their pollen to animals. |
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| color, smell, mimics (pretends) |
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| Many animal rights activists have claimed that if beef cattle were eliminated, more people could be fed. What is the ecological basis behind the argument in support of this position? |
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