Evolution
Anatomy/Growth
Transport
Nutrition
Hormones
100
The sporophyte produces ______ by _______?
What are spores and meiosis
100
This type of meristem produces spread
What is the axillary meristem
100
Water potential of a plant cell is the sum of these two terms
What are the pressure potential and osmotic potential?
100
These three nutrients are most commonly growth limiting
What are N, P, K?
100
This hormone promotes apical dominance and ethylene synthesis
What is auxin
200
This key innovation of the charophytes provided a structure for cell plate formation
What is the phragmoplast
200
These tissue types are included in bark?
What are the secondary phloem, cork cambium, and cork.
200
These three properties of water allow the process of transpiration to occur?
What are cohesion, adhesion, and surface tension.
200
This type of bacteria produces nitrates from ammonia
What are nitrifying bacteria
200
This hormone promotes division and differentiation and is used to stimulate growth in culture.
What are cytokinins
300
This family of plants was the first to evolve sporopollenin and the cuticle.
What are the bryophytes
300
Root apical meristems include the following centers of tissue development?
What are the zone of division, elongation, and maturation. (bonus) quiescent center
300
Plasmolysis occurs when this change occurs in the water potential of the extracellular fluid
What is an increase in solute concentration above that of cytoplasm leading to a gradient for water out of the cell.
300
These soil layers maintain the majority of nutrients
What are the organic and topsoil layers (Horizons O, A)?
300
This hormone promotes fruit ripening and is balanced by ABA
What is giberrillic acid
400
Name three key innovations of the pteridophytes
What are stomata, true rhizoids, lignin supported stems, true xylem/phloem, sporophyte dominant life cycle (heterospory).
400
Name three characteristics by which monocots can be differentiated by dicots
What are cotyledons (1,2), veins (parellel, branched), stem vasculature (random, ring), root (fibrous, tap), and flower number (x 3, x 4,5).
400
What are the three routes of transport within the plant and which is required by the Casperian Strip?
What are symplatic, apoplastic, and transmembrane. Symplastic is transport is required for compounds to end the stele.
400
This signal secreted by the plant activates the nod gene in rhizobium bacteria
What are flavenoids
400
This hormone promotes seed dormancy and stomata closure
What is ABA?
500
This family of plants can reproduce asexually through zoospores
What are the green algae (charophycean algae, chlamydomonas)
500
Name the three primary meristematic tissues and their primary products
What are the protoderm, procambium, ground meristem and the epidermis, primary xylem/phloem, cortex/pith, respectively
500
This enzyme allows plants to improve carbon fixating efficiency.
What is PEP carboxylase?
500
This protein protects the rhizobial nitrogenase from oxygen
What is leghemoglobin
500
This response involves recruitment of a parasitic wasp for defense
What is the tritrophic response?
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