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BIOS 390 exam 2

  • Meristem
  • –Answer growing tips of roots and shoots

  • Meristematic
  • –Answer region that has actively dividing cells

  • Rhizome
  • –Answer sends out roots/ modified plant stem. Can send out roots from the bottom of the nodes and can have upward shoots from the nodes.

  • Tiller
  • –Answer shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. All shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed.

  • Root
  • –Answer organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for a plant and take in water into the plant body.

  • Shoot
  • –Answer new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot. Shoot with plant stem and the appendages.

  • Monocot
  • –Answer grass and grass like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds that have only one embryonic leaf or cotyledon. Parallel-veined leaves, scattered vascu- lar bundles, absence of a typical cambium and adventitious root system.

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–Answer has a pair of leaves or cotyledons in the embryo of the seed

  • Xylem
  • –Answer transports water from roots to stems and leaves. Provides physical sup- port

  • Phloem
  • –Answer transports sugars to the growing sinks of the plant.

  • Reciprocity (vs. gratitude)
  • –Answer the give and take. Gratitude is giving thanks to what you are given.

  • Masting
  • –Answer large quantities during long-interval of fruits

  • Predator satiation
  • –Answer prey can occur briefly at high population densities which reduces the probability of an individual organism being eaten.

  • Water and nutrient uptake
  • –Answer water uptake- xylem. sugar dispersal through plant- phloem

  • Nonstructural carbohydrates
  • –Answer structural carbohydrates –Answer sucrose, glucose, fructose and starch. Digested rapidly and energy is released quickly for a short burst of energy.

  • secondary xylem
  • –Answer formed during secondary growth from vascular cambium. Conifers used as softwood.Angiosperms - used as hardwood.

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