Honors Bio Ch. 7 & 11

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Vascular Plants

Back 1

Plants that transport nutrients using vascular tissue

Hint 1

-Uses Xylem & Phloem

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Lignin

Back 2

A hard material in cell walls

Hint 2

Helps plants stand up

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Xylem

Back 3

Hollow tube that carries water up

Hint 3

-Made of vascular tissue

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Phloem

Back 4

Distributes organic nutrients in vascular plants

Hint 4

-Uses active transport

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Vessel Elements

Back 5

Water conducting cells

Hint 5

-in xylem with Tracheids

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Trachieds

Back 6

Also watter conducting cells

Hint 6

-in xylem

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Cohesion

Back 7

A tendency for water to stick together

Hint 7

-H bonds

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Adhesion

Back 8

A tendency for water to stick to other charged molecules

Hint 8

-When water "sticks" to the container

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Sieve Tubes

Back 9

Channels in phloem

Hint 9

Carry nutrients in phloem

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Endosperm

Back 10

Tissue that surrounds the embryo

Hint 10

Endosperm= inside seed

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Cotyledons

Back 11

Small bumps on an embryo

Hint 11

-become leaves

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Apical Meristems

Back 12

creates cells that become specialized

Hint 12

-stem cells for plants

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Seed Coat

Back 13

Encloses the endosperm

Hint 13

-Coats the seed

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Germination

Back 14

When the seed sprouts

Hint 14

- only happens when conditions are right

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Primary Growth

Back 15

Plants vertical growth

Hint 15

-More prominent during germination

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Node

Back 16

Points where leave grow

Hint 16

-Sprouting point for leaves

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Root cap

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Rough tissue mass

Hint 17

-Caps a root

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Epidermis

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Surface cells

Hint 18

-The outer protective layer of cells

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Cuticle

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Hydrophobic wax

Hint 19

-Covers the epidermal layer of cells

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Vascular Tissue

Back 20

Building for phloem & xylem

Hint 20

Makes what makes vascular plant special

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Ground tissue

Back 21

Gives plant shape and structure

Hint 21

-Fills plant giving it support

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Secondary Growth

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Plants horizontal growth

Hint 22

- Growth relating to diameter

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Vascular Cambium

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Where secondary growth comes from

Hint 23

-Type of meristem

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Pericycle

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Where root branches come from

Hint 24

-A meristem for roots

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Plant Growth Regulators

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Compounds that regulate the plants growth

Hint 25

-Plant hormones

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Auxins

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Produced by Apical meristems

Hint 26

-Produced by Apical meristems

-Growth Promoter

-First PGR to be discovered

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Gibberellins

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Causes plants to grow fast and tall

Hint 27

-Dicovered in 1920

-Growth Promoter

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Cytokinins

Back 28

Promote cell division and development

Hint 28

Encourages natural growth

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Ethylene

Back 29

Growth inhibitor in gas form

Hint 29

C2H4

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Absicisic acid

Back 30

Closes stroma during dry conditions

Hint 30

C15H20O4

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Tropism

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When plants grow toward or away stimulus

Hint 31

-Plants turning toward the sun

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Gravitropism

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Growing toward or away from gravity

Hint 32

-Gravi- Gravity

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Phototropism

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Growing toward or away from the sun

Hint 33

-Photo - sun

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Photoperiodism

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Response to an amount of sun

Hint 34

-Photo -sun

-Period - duration

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Phytochrome

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Chemicals that plants use to measure the amount of sun it was exposed to.

Hint 35

-Uses pigments to measure duration

-Chrome - color