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A carbohydrate that strengthens plant cell walls |
Cellulose |
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Special leaves |
Spines and tendrils |
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A vascular tissue that carries sap upward |
Xylem |
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Group of trees that produces winged fruits called samaras |
Maples |
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An abscission layer is involved in |
Loss of leaves |
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The purpose of cellular respiration is to |
Release energy from food |
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A plant family that is known for its poisonous members |
Cashew |
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Structural tissue |
A type of tissue that is a cork and parenchyma |
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The largest deciduous tree in America |
Sycamore |
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Cereal grasses |
Oats, rye and barley |
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The creeping, aboveground stem of a grass plant |
Stolon |
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The pressure produced by water within cells |
Turgor pressure |
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Ray flowers |
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Transpiration |
The process by which water vapor is lost from the leaves of plants |
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Deciduous |
Refers to trees that lose their leaves each fall |
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Two kinds of root systems |
Taproot, and fibrosis roots |
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Sap |
Name the liquid found in the roots, stems and leaves of plants |
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Crown |
The bushy head of a tree |
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Dicot |
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Leaves, stems, and flowers are part of the _________ system |
Shoot |
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The place where an organism lives is its |
Habitat |
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The stacks of chlorophyll -containing disks inside chloroplasts is |
Thylakoids |
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Plants whose special leaves trap and digest insects are |
Insectivorous |
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Sessile leaf |
A leaf that lacks a leafstalk |
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Herbaceous (plants) or herbs |
Refers to nonwoody plants |
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A leaf having more than one blade on the leafstalk |
Compound leaf |
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Perennials |
Based on their life cycles, all trees classified as this |
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Denitrifying bacteria |
Nitrogen in the soil that is returned to the air by |
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A type of venation |
Pinnate |
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The cause of the behavior when leaves of a particular plant wilt during the day but recover at night. |
The plant receives adequate water, but hot temperatures cause rapid transpiration during the day. |
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Plants are considered autotrophs because |
Plants conduct photosynthesis |
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The plant cannot grow or repair tissue damage is a result of |
If a plants meristematic tissue damaged |
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This onion plant is typically harvested after its first season of growth; if it is allowed to continue growing, it produces flowers in the second season before dying. |
Biennial |
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The role of peak-family plants in the nitrogen cycle is |
The pea-family plants' roots provide a place for nitrogen-fixing bacteria to grow. |
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Grasses are one of the most important groups of plants by |
Man and many animals depend directly or indirectly on grasses for most of their food. |
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A plant cell that is responsible when for this difference happens, when placed in pure water;the cells of humans and animals absorb water and swell until they burst; but the cells of plants absorb water and become firmer without bursting is |
Cell wall |
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Alternate |
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The least likely to provide a botanist with a good measurement of the rate of photosynthesis is |
The Change in the amount of chlorophyll in a leaf |
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The following changes that would be most likely to affect the rate of photosynthesis is |
The covering part of the box with cardboard |
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A stalk that attaches leaf to stem |
Petiole |
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Middle layer of leaf where majority of photosynthesis occurs |
Mesophyll |
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Large, central vein |
Midrib |
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Openings in the leaf |
Stomata |
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Protects and covers the leaf |
Epidermis |
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ESSAY: "God designed each organ of a flowering plant to help the plant fulfill it's role in nature" is |
-flowers let plants reproduce after their own kind, making sure that more plants are always at hand to fulfill their role in what is called nature. -leaves take in light and bring in carbon dioxide which results in food being produced for the plants through photosynthesis. This results in humans and animals getting the nutrients from the plant |