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Anatomy studies ____
while
Physiology studies____ |
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anatomy-structure
Physiology-function
*animals consist of a hierarchy of levels or organization |
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Each are examples of what level?
A. muscle cell
B. muscle tissue
C. Heart
D. Circulatory System
E. Many organ systems functioning together |
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A. Cellular Level B. Tissue Level C. Organ Level D. Circulatory System E. Organism Level |
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| groups of cells with a common structure and function |
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| What are the four main categories of tissues in animals? |
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-Epithelial
- Connective
-Muscle
-Nervous |
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| What does the epithelial tissue do? |
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| Covers the body and lines its organs and cavities |
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| what are the three shapes of epithelial cells? |
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-Squamous- LIKE A FRIED EGG
-Cuboidal- as tall as they are wide
-Columnar- Taller then they are wide |
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| stacked on top of eachother |
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| What does connective tissue do? |
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| binds and supporst other tissues |
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| What are the six major types of connective tissue? |
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1. Loose connective tissue
2. Fibrous connective tissue
3. Adipose tissue
4. Cartilage
5. Bone
6. Blood |
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| What does muscle tissue do? |
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Skeletal muscle:
Cardiac muscle:
Smooth muscle: |
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Skeletal: causes VOLUNTARY movements
Cardiac: pumps blood
Smooth: moves walls of internal organs, such as the intestines |
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| What do nervous tissues form? |
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| How do neurons in the nervous tissue carry signals? |
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| by conducting electrical impulses |
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| What do the supporting cells around the nervous tissue do? |
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| insulate axons and nourish neurons |
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| Organs are made up of what? |
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Tissues
(each tissue performs a specific funcion) |
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| Organ systems work together to do what? |
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| an organ system usually consists of ____ organs |
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many
(each organ system has one or more functions) |
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Endocrine system:
Skeletal and muscular systems:
Circulatory system:
Respiratory system:
Integumentary system:
Excretory system:
Lymphatic and immune systems:
Reproductive system:
Digestive system:
Nervous system: |
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Endocrine system: controls body functions
Skeletal and muscular systems: support and move the body
Circulatory system: transports the food and oxygen
Respiratory system: abosrbs oxygen and releases carbon dioxide
Integumentary system: covers and protects the body
Excretory system: disposes of certain wastes
Lymphatic and immune systems: protect the body from infection and cancer
Reproductive system: perpetuates the species
Digestive system: absorbs food
Nervous system: controls body functions |
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| Structural adaptations do what? |
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| enhance exchange between animals and their environment |
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| Animals must exchange materials with the environment, how do they do this? |
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-Respiratory system exchanges gases
-Digestive system aquires food and eliminates wastes
-Excretory system eliminates metabolic waste |
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| What do adaptations that increase surface area do? |
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| promote exchanges with the environment |
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| How do animals regulate their internal environment? |
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| Through homeostasis which is an internal steady state |
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| What does homeostasis depend on? |
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| mechanisms permit only small fluctuations around set points |
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| Most animals have one of three kind of diets which are: |
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-Herbivores-Plant-eathers (cattle, snails, sea urchins)
-Carnivores- meat eaters (lions, hawks, spiders)
-Omnivores- eating both plants and other animals ( humans, roaches, raccoons, crows) |
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| What are the four stages in which food is processed? |
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-Ingestion
-Digestion
-Absorption
-Elimination
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| Why does mechanical digestion break food into smaller pieces? |
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-easier to swallow
-smaller pieces have more surface area exposed to digestive fluids |
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Breaks down large organic molecules into their components
-Proteins split into amino acids
-polysaccharides and disaccharides into monosaccharides
-nucleic acids into nucleotides |
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| Order in which food is processed |
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| Mouth-esophagus-stomach-small intestine-large intestine-rectum-anus |
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| Where does digestion begin? |
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| Teeth break up food, saliva moistens it |
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-Salivary enzymes begin the hydrolysis of starch
-Buffers neutralize acids
-Antibacterial agents kills some bacteria ingested with food |
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| tastes, shapes the bolus of food, and moves it toward the pharynx |
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How is food moved?----
(just in case, i don't think it's on the test) |
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-alternating waves of contraction and relaxation by smooth muscle in the walls of the canal move food along in a process called peristalsis
-Sphincters control the movement of food into and out of digestive chambers |
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| after swallowing, peristalsis moves food through the esophagus to the stomach |
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Definition
-the trachea conducts air to the lungs
-the esophagus conducts food from the pharynx to the stomach |
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| when sphincter is contracted the epiglottis is __, when the sphincter is relaxed (bolus passes by) the epiglottis is ____ |
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The stomach stores food and breaks it down with acid and enzymes:
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ACID
- pH2
-Parietal cells secrete hydrogena and chloride ions, which combine to make HCl
-Acid kills bacteria and breaks apart cells in food
PEPSIN
-pepsin begins with the chemical digestion of proteins
-acidic gastric juices mix with food to produce acid CHYME!!! |
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| What prevents the gastric juices from digesting the walls of the stomach? |
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Definition
-mucus helps protect against HCl and pepsin
-New cells lining the stomach are produced about every 3 days |
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| What is the major organ of chemical digestion and nutrient absorpion? |
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Pancreatic juice- neutralizes acid chyme and its enzymes digest food
-bile- made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, emulsifies fat for attack by pancreatic enzymes |
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| Nutrients pass across the what and into the blood? |
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| Where does blood flow in which nutrients are processed and stored? |
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| What does the large intestine do? |
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| reclaims water and compacts the feces |
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diarrhea occurs when:
Constipation occurs when: |
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diarrhea occurs when: too little water is reclaimed
Constipation occurs when: when too much water is reclaimed |
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| A healthy diet satisfies 3 needs: |
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-fuel to power the body
-Organic molecules to build molecules
-Essential nutrients-raw materials that animals cannot make for themselves |
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| how does chemical energy power the body? |
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Definition
-Nutrients are oxidized inside cells to make ATP
- ATP is the main energy "currency" in a cell
-Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are the main sources of deitary calories
(a gram of fat has more than twice as many calories as a gram of carbohydrate or protien) |
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| is the energy a resting animal requires each day |
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| is the BMR plus the energy needed for physical activity |
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| How is excess energy stored? |
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| Essential nutrients can/cannot be made from any raw material |
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| missing essential nutrients |
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| consuming more food energy then is needed |
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| gas exchange in an animal with lungs involves: |
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| breathing, transport of gases, and exchange of gases with tissue cells |
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| What are the three phases of gas exchange? |
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Definition
-Breathing
-Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in blood
-Body tissues take up oxygen and release carbon dioxide
(cellular respiration requires a continuous supply of oxygen and the disposal of carbon dioxide.) |
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| In the human respiratory system, what convey's air to lungs located in the chest cavity? |
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| Order of air flow in respiratory system |
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From NASAL CAVITY to
PHARYNX then LARYNX, past the VOCAL CORDS, into theTRACHEA, held open by the cartilage rings into the paired BRONCHI into BRONCHIOLES and finally to the ALVEOLI, grapelike clusters of air sacs, where gas exchange occurs. |
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| What do mucus and cilia in the the respiratory passages do? |
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Definition
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| how are alveoli adapted for gas exchange? |
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-high surface area of capillaries
-high surface area of alveoli |
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| what happens in the alveoli? |
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-O2 diffuses into the blood
-CO2 diffuses out of the blood |
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| Mucus and cilia in the respiratory passages do what? |
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-protect the lungs
-can be damaged by smoking |
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| Without healthy cilia, what must smokers do to clear dirty mucus from the trachea? |
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| ______ pressure breathing ventilates our lungs |
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| Breathing is the alternate _____ and ____ of air (ventilation) |
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| inhalation and exhalation |
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-The rib cage expands
-The diaphragm moves downward
-The pressure around the lungs decreases
-Air is drawn into the respiratory tract |
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-The rib cage contracts
-The diaphragm moves upward
-The pressure around the lungs increases
-air is forced out of the respiratory tract |
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| Not all air is expelled during exhalation, what happens to it? |
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-some air still remains in the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli
-This remaining air is "dead air"
-Thus, inhalation mixes fresh air with dead air |
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| Breathing is under what kind of control? |
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| What do the breathing control centers in the brain do? |
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| sense and respond to Co2 levels in the blood |
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| What two regions does the heart pump blood into? |
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-The right side pumps oxygen-poor blood to the lungs
-The left side pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body |
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| In the lungs, blood picks up __ and drops off __ |
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| In the body tissues, blood drops off __ and picks up __ |
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| carries O2, helps transport Co2, and buffers the blood |
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| O2 bound to proteins ( most animals transport respiratory pigments |
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| Iron-containing hemoglobin |
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-Is used by almost all vertebrates and many invertebrates
-Transports oxygen, buffers blood, and transports Co2 |
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| Most Co2 in the blood is transported as what in the plasma? |
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| __________ _______ facilitate exchange with all body tissues |
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-Nutrients
-Gas Exchange
-Removal of wastes |
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| Diffusion alone is inadequate/adequate for large and complex bodies |
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| Most animals use a circulatory system |
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-Blood
-Heart
-Blood vessels |
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| The human cardiovascular system illustrates the __________ _________ of mammals |
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| Blood flows through what kind of system in humans? |
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| Double circulatory system |
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| Order of blood through circulatory system |
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1. Right ventricle
2. Pulmonary artery
3. Capillaries of left/right lung
4. Pulmonary vein
5. Left/right atrium
6. Left Ventricle
7. Aorta
8. Up to Capillaries of head, chest and arms, down to capillaries of abdominal region and legs
9. Superior vena cava
10. Right/left atrium
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-Two thin-walled atria that pumps blood to ventricles
- Thick-walled ventricles that pump blood to lungs and all other body regions |
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| What does a pacemaker do? |
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Definition
-sets the tempo of the heartbeat
-sets the rate of heart contractions
-Generates electrical signals in atria |
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| Structure and function of Arteries and veins |
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Definition
-Lined by single layer of epithelial cells
-Smooth muscle in walls can reduce blood flow
-Elastic fibers permit recoil after stretching
-Veins have one-way valves that restrict backward flow |
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Definition
-Thin walls- a single layer of epithelial cells
-Narrow- blood cells flow in a single file
-Increase surface area for gas and fluid exchange |
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| What are the two main groups of angiosperms? |
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| Monocots and eudicots differ in: |
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-Number of cotyledons (seed leaves)
-Pattern of leaf venation
-Arrangement of stem vascular tissue
-Number of flower parts
-Root structure |
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-One cotyledon
-Parallel leaf venation
-Scattered vascular bundles
-Flower parts in 3s or multiples of 3
-Fibrous roots |
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| Eudicots-most plants are eudicots |
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-Two cotyledons
-Branched leaf venation
-Ring of vascular bundles
-Flower parts in 4s or 5s (or multiples)
-Taproot system |
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| A typical plant body contains three basic organs: |
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| Plants absorb water and minerals from soil through ____ |
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| Plants absorb the sun's energy and carbon dioxide from the air through ____ |
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| shoots (stems and leaves) |
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| Plant roots depend on shoots for ___________ produced via photosynthesis |
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| Plant shoots depend on what for water and minerals? |
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-anchor plant
-absorb water and nutrients
-store food |
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-stems, leaves, and reproductive structures
-stems provide support
-leaves carry out photosynthesis |
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node: attaches leaf to stem
root hairs: little hairs on thicker part of root that increases surface area for absorption |
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| modifications of plants parts are adaptations for various functions: |
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-food or water storage
-asexual reproduction
-protection
-climbing
-photosynthesis |
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-food storage
----large taproots store starches
( carrots, turnips, sugar beets, sweet potatoes) |
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-Stolon-asexual reproduction
-Rhizomes-Storage, asexual reproduction
-Tubers- storage, asexual reproduction
-Cactus stem-water storage and photosynthesis |
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Definition
-protection-cactus spine
-climbing-pea plant tendril |
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| Three tissue systems make up the plant body: |
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Dermal tissue
Vascular tissue
Ground tissue |
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| outer protective covering |
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| support and long-distance transport |
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-Bulk of the plant body
-Food production, storage, support |
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| What is the Dermal tissue? |
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-layer of tightly packed cells called the epidermis
-first line of defense against damage and infection
-Waxy layer called cuticle reduces water loss
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| What is vascualar tissue composed of? |
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-Composed of xylem (water transport) and phloem (food transport)
-arranged in bundles |
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-lies between dermal and vascular tissue
-Eudicot stem ground tissue is divided into pith and cortex
-leaf ground tissue is called mesophyll |
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| What are the three structures in plant cells that distingush them from animal cells? |
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-Chloroplast used in photosynthesis
-a large, fluid-filled vacuole
-A cell wall composed of cellulose |
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-Primary cell wall-outermost layers
-Secondary cell wall- Tough layer inside primary wall |
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| a sticky layer called the _____ _____ lies between adjacent plant cells |
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| Openings in cell walls called _____________ allow cells to communicate and exchange materials easily |
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| What are the five major types of plant cells? |
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-Parenchyma
-Collenchyma
-Sclerenchyma
-Water-conducting
-Food-conducting |
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-Most abundant cell type
-Thin primary cell wall
-Lack secondary cell wall
-ALIVE at maturity
-Funcion in photosynthesis, food and water storage |
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-Unevenly thickened primary cell wall
-lack secondary cell wall
-ALIVE at maturity
-provide flexible support |
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-Thick secondary cell wall containing lignin (main component of wood)
-Dead at maturity
-Ridgid support |
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| Water Conducting cells- tracheids and vessel elements |
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-both have thick secondary cell walls
-both are DEAD at maturity
-Chains of tracheids and vessel elements form tubes that make up the vascular tissue called xylem |
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| Food-Conducting Cells- SIEVE TUBE MEMBERS |
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- No secondary cell wall
-Alive at maturity but lack most organelles
-COMPANION CELLS (contain organelles and control operations of sieve tube members)
-Chains of sieve tube members, separated by porous SIEVE PLATES, form the vascular tissue caleld PHLOEM |
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| Plants aquire their nutrients from soil and air |
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-Plants take up carbon dioxide from the air to produce sugars via photosynthesis; oxygen is produced as a product of photosynthesis
-plants obtain water, minerals, and some oxygen from the soil
-using simple sugars as an energy source and as building blocks, plants convert the inorganic molecules they take up into the organic molecules of living plant tissue |
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| inorganic molecules taken up by plants |
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-carbon dioxide
-nitrogen
-magnesium
-phosphorus |
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| organic molecules produced by plants |
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-carbohydrates
-lipids
-proteins
-nucleic acids |
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| The what of root cells controwl solute uptake? |
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| minerals taken up by plant roots are in what kind of solution? |
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| Water and minerals are absorbed through the _____ of the root and must be taken up by root cells before they enter the xylem |
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| What of the plasma membrane of root cells controls what minerals enter the xylem? |
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| Transpiration pulls/ pushes water up xylem vessels? |
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the solution carried up through a plant in tracheids and vessel elements
-xylem sap is pulled up through roots and shoots to the leaves
-Evaporation of water from the surface of leaves called transpiration, is the driving force for the movement of xylem sap
-water's cohesion and adhesion allow water to be pulled up to the top of the highest trees |
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| Transpiration-cohesion-tension mechanism |
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-water's cohesion describes its ability to stick to itself
-Water's adhesion describes its ability to sick to othe surfaces; water adheres to the inner surface of xylem cells
-A steep diffusion gradient pulls water molecules from the surface of leaves into much drier air
-The air's pull on water creates a tension that pulls on water in the xylem; since water is cohesive, it is pulled along, much as when a person sucks on a straw
*PULLS* |
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| what controls transpiration? |
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| Guard cells control transpiration |
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| Plants must open pores in leaves called _____ to allow Co2 to enter for photosynthesis |
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| Water evaporates from the surface of leaves through what? |
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| ____ guard cells surround each stoma? |
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| Guard cells can regulate the amount of water lost from leaves by: |
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| changing shape and closing the stomatal pore |
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| Stomata open when guard cells take up water |
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-Uneven cell walls of guard cells causes them to bow when water is taken up
-the bowing of the guard cells causes the pore of the stoma to open
-when guard cells become flaccid, the stoma closes |
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| several factors help regulate guard cell activity |
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-in general, stomata are open during the day and closed at night
-low Co2 concentration in leaves also signals guard cells to open stomata |
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| Phloem transports the products of photosynthesis throughout the plant |
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-phloem is composed of long tubes of sieve tube members stacked end to end
-Phloem sap moves through sieve plates in sieve tube members
-sugars are carried through phloem from sources to sinks |
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a plant organ that is a net producer of sugar via photosynthesis or breakdown of starch
-leaves produce sugars via photosynthesis
-roots and other storage organs produce sugar via breakdown of starch |
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is a plant organ that is a net consumer of sugar or one that stores starch
-growing organs use sugar in cellular respiration
-roots and other organs store unused sugars as starch |
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| The pressure flow mechanism |
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-at sources, sugars are actively loaded into sieve tube members
-high solute concentration caused by the sugar in sieve tubes causes water to ruch in from nearby xylem cells
-flow of water into sieve tubes increases pressure at sources
-at sinks, sugars are unloakded from the sieve tubes and solute concentration decreases; water is lost and pressure is low
-the pressure gradient drives rapid movement of sugars from the sources to sinks |
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INDETERMINATE
-growth occurs throughout a plant's life
-plants are categorized based on how long they live (annuals, biennials, perennials) |
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DETERMINATE
-growth stops after a certain size is reached |
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| roots and shoots are lenghthened by: |
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| Plant growth occurs in specialized tissues called meristems, what are the different types? |
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meristems- regions of active cell division
Apical meristems- found at the tips of roots and shoots
(primary growth occurs at apical meristems)
-primary growth allows roots to push downward through the soil and shoots to grow upward toward the sun
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| the apical meristem of root tips are covered by what? |
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| root growth occurs behind the root cap in 3 zones: |
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-zone of cell division- the apical meristem
-zone of cell elongation- cells lengthen by as much as 10 times
-zone of maturation- cells differentiate into dermal, vasuclar, and ground tissues |
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| What increases the girth of woody plants? |
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| where does Secondary growth occur? |
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areas of active cell division that exist in two cylinders that extend along the length of roots and shoots
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| a lateral meristem that lies between primary xylem and phloem |
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| a lateral meristem that lies at the outer edge of the stem cortex |
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| wood annual rings show layers of secondary xylem |
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-in temperate regions, periods of dormancy stop growth of secondary xylem
-rings occur in areas when new growth starts each year |
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| What (secondary phloem and cork) is sloughed off over time? |
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| What is the organ of sexual reproduction in angiosperms? |
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| flowers typically contain four types of highly modified leaves called floral organs: |
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-Sepals- enclose and protect flower bud
-Petals- showy; attract pollinators
-Stamens- male reproductive structures
-Carpels- female reproductive structures |
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| describe the structure of an angiosperm flower and the funcion of each part |
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| Sepals, petals, stamens (anther and filament), carpels (stigma, style, and ovary which house ovules) |
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| explain the difference between the angiosperm sporophyte and gametophyte |
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| The diploid generation is called the sporaphyte, while the haploid generation is called the gametophyte |
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| describe the series of the events that occur in the angiosperm life cycle from spore production to seed germination |
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| Describe some modes of plant asexual reproduction and conditions that favor asexual reproduction |
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| identify evolutionary adaptations that allow plants to live very long lives |
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