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Botany
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 2
01/26/2013

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Term
Horticulture
Definition
the cultivation of flowers, fruits, veggies, or ornamental plants
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Ornamental crops
Definition
flowers, trees, turf
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Edible Crops
Definition
fruits, veggies, herbs
Term
Botany is the scientific study of plants
Definition
taxonomy and nomenlacture
plant maturity and juvenity
anatomy and morphology
Term
taxonomy
Definition
the techinque of naming an organism
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Binomial Nomenclature
Definition
Genus and specific epithet

created by Linnaeus
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Culitvar
Definition
common name like "Baby Blue"
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Asteraceae
Definition
Aster family, diasy like flowrs
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Laminaceae
Definition
Mint family, square stems
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Fabaceae
Definition
Legume family, long pod like fruits
Term
Rosaceae
Definition
Rose family, petals in mulitples of 5, like apples
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Brassicaceae
Definition
Mustrad family, flowers aranged crosswise like broccoli
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Solanceae
Definition
Nightshade family, posionous,like tomatoes
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Poaceae
Definition
grass family
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Cactceae
Definition
Cactus
Term
Musaceae
Definition
Banana-tree family
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Rannunculaceae
Definition
Buttercup family
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Anatomy
Definition
roots, stems, and leaves
Term
Morphology
Definition
shapes and compostion
Term
Heirachry
Definition
cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
Term
Cells of Plants: Parenchyma
Definition
Thin 1 in walls
Term
Cells of Plants: Collenchyma
Definition
Unevenly thick 1 in walls
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Cells of Plants: Scierenchyma
Definition
Highly organized thick 2 in walls
Term
Tissues are classified as
Definition
permenant tissues and meristematic tissues are composed of cells
Term
Meristems
Definition
tissues that can divide
Term
Vascular System
Definition
support and translocation of subtances
Term
Dermal Ssytem
Definition
Protects watere loss and invasion
Term
Fund(Ground)tissue system
Definition
all the other tissues in the plant
Term
Xylem
Definition
transports water and dissolved nutrients from the roots 2 the shoots
Term
pHOLEM
Definition
transports photosynthate
Term
Vegetative Organs
Definition
Roots, stems, and leaves
Term
Reproductive Organs
Definition
Flowers, fruits, seeds
Term
Roots
Definition
absorboring water and nutients
Term
Stems
Definition
provide structure
Term
Monocots
Definition
long narrow leaves
Term
Dicots
Definition
broad leaves
Term
Lenticels
Definition
pores on stems
Term
Lamina
Definition
blade
Term
petiole
Definition
stem
Term
cuiticle
Definition
waxy layer
Term
trichomes
Definition
hair
Term
stomates
Definition
pores 4 gas exchange
Term
parts of dicot leaf
Definition
blade or lamnia
petiole
stipules
Term
Defense
Definition
spines, thorns, prickles
Term
storage organs
Definition
bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers
Term
Stamens
Definition
male
filament
anther
Term
Pistils
Definition
female
stigma, style, ovary
Term
Perianth
Definition
around the flower
Term
Calyx
Definition
collective sepals
Term
Corolla
Definition
collective petals
Term
Tepals
Definition
if sepals and petals appear the same
Term
Complete flowers
Definition
have all 4 floral parts (sepals, petals, pistils, and stamen)
Term
Incomplete flowers
Definition
lack one of more of the 4 parts
Term
Perfect flowers
Definition
can lack sepals or petals
Term
Imperfect flowers
Definition
lacks either pistil or stamen
Term
Monoecious
Definition
imperfect flowers on the same plant
Term
Dioecious
Definition
cross pollinate
pistilate and staminate flowers on separate plants
Term
Solitary inflorencece
Definition
flower and peduncle--supporting structure
Term
Compound inflorenense
Definition
florets and pedicles
Term
Raceme
Definition
spike like structure
Term
Head
Definition
collection of specialize flowers
Term
Spadix
Definition
hidden flowers
Term
simple fruit
Definition
single pistil and 1 mature ovary, like a peach
Term
aggregate fruit
Definition
numerous ovaries like a blackberry
Term
multiple fruit
Definition
matured ovaries of an entire inflorence like a pineapple
Term
accessory
Definition
fruits derived from something other than a mature ovary like an apple
Term
types of fruits that have a pericarp that is soft flashy and mushy
Definition
berry, drupe, pome, hesperidum, pepo
Term
dry fruits that is hard and brittle at maturity
Definition
legume, capsule, floicule, silicle, and slique, nut, samara, achene, caryopsis
Term
Dehiscence
Definition
carpal splits along definite sutures at maturity
Term
Indehiscence
Definition
fruit wall does not split at any definte sysytem
Term
Plant processes
Definition
photosythesis, respiration, aboroption, translocation, and traspiration
Term
Photosythesis
Definition
water, air and sunlight, plants trans the sun's energy to carbs. the chrolophyll molecule is primary site for light absoption. and makes ATP
Term
Respiration:
Definition
the reverse of photosythesis and releases enegey from glucose molecules that are broken down to carbon dioxide molecules
Term
Absoption
Definition
uptake of water and nutriets and osmosis through root hairs
Term
Transpiration
Definition
loss of moisture through stomates, can be increased by dry conditions
Term
Plant hormones
Definition
auxin, cytokin, ethylene, abscissic acid, and gibberelin
Term
auxin
Definition
stimulates the formation of adentitous roots in many species from the non root tissues
Term
Gibberlins
Definition
stem growth (internode elongation)
Term
Cytokins
Definition
keeps cells younger and regulate cell division
Term
Abscisic Acid
Definition
slows down hormones, promotes dormancy, most commonly in fleshy fruits
Term
Ethylene
Definition
hormones that is a gas, produced by fruits, flowers, seeds, leaves and roots, used to ripen green fruits
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