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| Conducts water and nutrients throughout the plant and includes two types of conducting tissue the xylem and phloem. Enhances transport throughout the plant. |
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| Conducts water and dissolved minerals. Contains a combination of vessels (continuous tubes of dead cyndrical cells arranged end to end) and tracheids(dead cells that taper at the end and overlap one another) Vessels are shorter. Also includes fibers and parenchyma cells. |
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| diffusion of water vapor from a plant |
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| parenchyma cells usually produced in horizontal rows in the xylem. Function in lateral conduction and food storage.Task is transportation of nutrients which have been produced by the tree, to the central part of the trunk, where these nutrients are stored in empty cells. |
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| Constitutes the main food conducting tissue in vascular plants and contains two types of elongated cells: sieve cells and sieve tube members. |
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| Four regions commonly recognized in developing roots |
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| Rootcap, Zone of cell division, Zone of elongation and zone of maturation |
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| The root system deveops from |
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| apical meristem protected by root cap. |
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| a complete flower has four whorls |
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| Calyx corolla androecium gynoecium |
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| Once a plant is able to reproduce what are some factors that determines whether a flower is produced? |
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| Light, temperature. both inhibitory and promotive signals. |
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Both male and female structures usually occur together in the same individual.
Reproductive structures are not permanent parts of an adult individual. |
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| Requirement for a period of chilling of seeds or shoots for flowing, Affect the temperature-dependant pathway |
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