Leaf Structure&Function
Stalking- er... Stemming
Getting to the ROOT
Development
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100
This is the stalk that attaches the blade to the stem.
What is the Petiole?
100
The free energy of water is also known as this.
What is Water Potential?
100
This type of root system has a main root that other lateral roots branch from.
What is a taproot system?
100
This is the directional growth of a plant based on contact.
What is Thigmotropism?
100
This is found between the LEFT Atrium and LEFT Ventricle.
What is the Mitral Valve?
200
This is another term for shedding leaves.
What is abscission?
200
This type of stem has the vascular bundles surrounding the pith.
What is a Eudicot stem?
200
This delicate part of the stem is covered by the root cap.
What is the apical meristem?
200
These type of plants flower when the night length is equal to or greater than some critical period.
What are short-day plants?
200
This happens when the pressure in the alveoli are lower than outside.
What is Inspiration?
300
Name the three leaf arrangements on a stem.
What are Alternate, Opposite, and Whorled?
300
This model explains translocation in phloem (how the sugars move)
What is the pressure-flow model?
300
This type of root has a bigger stele than the other type of root.
What is a monocot root?
300
Using these two hormones, it is possible for a plant to growth on agar placed on water (figure 38-10)
What are Auxin and Cytokinin?
300
The only place in the nephron where Urea diffuses from.
What is the collecting duct?
400
This type of light activates the proton pumps to open up stomatas.
What is BLUE light?
400
Because of this, cohesion and adhesion on the walls of xylem cells happen.
What is hydrogen bonding?
400
This type of bacteria help the plant get more Nitrogen.
What is the Rhyzobial Bacteria?
400
Found in stem nodes, this promotes fruit ripening and abscission.
What is Ethylene?
400
"The more blood delivered to the Heart by the veins, the more the heart pumps." is whose law?
What is Sterling? (Sterling's law of the heart)
500
These hard-like structures help reduce water loss by retaining a layer of moist air and reflects sunlight.

What are trichromes?

500

For woody plants, this thing gives rise to secondary xylem and secondary phloem.

What is Vascular Cambium?

500
These subterranean associations between plant and fungi are an example of mutualism.
What is Mycorrhizae?
500
This is the main photoreceptor for photoperiodism and many other light initiated plant responses.
What is a phytochrome?
500
Almost 99% of Oxygen in the human blood is transported as this.
What is Oxyhemoglobin?
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