ASEXUAL REPRO
Another term for asexual reproduction in plants.
What is vegetative propagation?
Most plants that we eat typically reproduce through this type of reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction?
A term for underground water reservoirs.
What is an aquifer?
Directionally dependent responses.
What is a tropism?
This hormone is a gas.
What is ethylene?
An organism that is genetically identical to the parent plant.
What is a clone?
What is the production of food?
This process releases water from the ground into the atmosphere where it joins water evaporated from oceans, lakes, and rivers to form clouds.
What is transpiration?
Growing against gravity.
What is negative gravitropism?
This is produced by the apical meristem, promotes cell elongation, and suppresses cell division.
What are auxins?
These produce new plants by sending out buds, such as the eyes on a potato. They are underground stems that swell to store nutrients.
What are tubers?
This type of ordinary potato has been certified to be free of disease. You can buy them at Farm King.
What are seed potatoes?
Plants can have a huge effect on local this (the average weather in an area over an extended length of time). Because of this, urban planners in recent years have increased the number of green spaces in cities.
What is climate?
The least understood of all the tropisms.
What is hydrotropism?
These are produced in the roots and they encourage stem elongation and cell growth.
What are gibberellins?
An underground bud, like those of an onion, are called this.
What are bulbs?
The goal of this process is to connect the xylem and phloem of the scion and the stock. You see it a lot with fruit trees.
What is grafting?
By holding soil particles in place, lessening the force of moving water, and acting as windbreaks, plants greatly help in controlling this.
What is erosion?
The response of a plant to changes in the duration and intensity of light exposure.
What is photoperiodism?
These promote cell division and lateral bud development.
What are cytokinins?
These underground stems are solid, white bulbs with scales or layers.
What are corms?
In this process, a branch of the plant, usually a bushy plant such as a holly or azalea, is bent to the ground and a portion of it is buried. The remaining part of the branch is staked to force it to grow upward.
What is layering?
Virtually all the organisms on the earth depend on this to keep a supply of energy entering the ecosystem.
What is the sun?
This type of plant won't flower until the length of nighttime is less than a certain amount.
What are long-day plants?
These inhibit other hormones and slow cell growth.
What is abscisic acid?