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Botany Exam part 1
Final Botany Exam
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 2
11/26/2015

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Term
What are fronds?
Definition
Leaves of ferns
Term
What are fiddleheads?
Definition
Immature fronds that appear tightly rolled or coiled
Term
What are petioles?
Definition
They attach the frond to the rhizome
Term
What are rachis?
Definition
midribs or center stem region
Term
What are pinnae?
Definition
Leaflets
Term
What does Homosporous mean?
Definition
one type of spore that will produce a gametophyte that contains an
antheridia and archegonia on the same structure
Term
What does hetersporous mean?
Definition
- (rare) two types of spores that produce separate male (from
microspores) and female gametophyte (from Megaspores).
Term
What are sorus?
Definition
cluster of sporangia
Term
What is the indusium?
Definition
Protects the sorus
Term
What is the annulus?
Definition
It pops open to release the mature spores.
Term
What is the prothalli?
Definition
Heart shaped gametopytes containing both sexes
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