Germination and Dormancy
The innate inhibition of germination even under favorable conditions to ensure seeds germinate at the right time for survival.
What is dormancy?
These have 1 cotyledon.
What are monocots?
Another word for the dark reactions
What is the Calvin Cycle?
High temp, low humidity and wind do what to transpiration
What is decrease?
The tropism allowing positive or negative growth orientation
Not actually required for seed germination contrary to popular belief
What is sunlight?
Dicot floral components are in multiples of
What is 4 or 5?
Is produced at the end of photosynthesis for the plant to use
What are sugars or photosynthates?
Respiration relies on this plant process to occur.
What is photosynthesis?
The plant hormone principally responsible for phototropism
What is Auxin
The primary root in germination, the first plant organ to appear upon germination
What is the radicle?
Another word or name for a seed.
What is an ovule or embryo?
Is cycled through light and dark reactions as chemical "energy"
What is ADP and/or ATP?
Cellular respiration in plants occurs in this cell organelle.
What is mitochondria?
The name for the growth tip of plants that allows for the dominance of growth from the tip toward the sun in positive phototropism
What is apical meristem?
The first step in seed germination after the dormancy requirement has been met.
What is water absorption or imbibition?
The name for seed leaves.
What is cotyledon?
Is cycled through the light and dark reactions as a hydrogen and electron donor
What is NADP and/or NADPH?
The action by which water molecules use their cohesive and adhesive properties to move up a plant stem against gravity in transpiration.
What is capillary action?
The proposed membrane bound grains of starch in root and apical cells that sink towards gravity
What is statolith?
In epigeal germination, this part of the embryonic stem elongates, forcing the cotyledons above the soil.
What is hypocotyl?
The primary function of the cotyledons of a dicot seed
What is storage of "food" for early growth?
Is taken from the atmosphere to fuel part of the end product of photosynthesis
What is CO2 or carbon dioxide?
Respiration does this to glucose
What is oxidation?
The name of the modified stem that allows for thigmotropism in plants such as Mimosa pudica
What is pulvinus?