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Clue: What are the freshwater green algae that are considered the closest evolutionary relatives to land plants?
Answer: Charophytes
Clue: What undifferentiated plant tissues allow for indeterminate growth and are found at the tips of roots and shoots?
Answer: Apical Meristems
Clue: What three elements make up approximately 95% of a plant's dry weight
Answer: Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
Clue: What plant hormone is primarily responsible for apical dominance and the phototropic bending of stems toward light?
Answer: Auxin (IAA)
Clue: What is the process in angiosperms where one sperm fertilizes the egg and another fuses with the polar nuclei?
Answer: Double Fertilization
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the number of bones you were born with decreases as you age
yes. 300 something to about 206 in adulthood
Clue: What is the term for the multicellular, haploid stage of the plant life cycle that produces gametes by mitosis?
answer: Gametophyte
Clue: What type of ground tissue cell provides flexible support to immature regions of the plant, such as a growing stem?
Answer: Collenchyma
Clue: What is the name of the process by which plants lose water vapor through their stomata, driving the pull of water up the xylem?
Answer: Transpiration
Clue: What gaseous plant hormone promotes fruit ripening and the abscission (dropping) of leaves?
Answer: Ethylene
Clue: What triploid (3n) tissue provides the nutritional source for the developing plant embryo inside a seed?
Answer: Endosperm
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Clue: These types of fruits, like the pea pod or the acorn, are characterized by a pericarp that is not juicy or fleshy at maturity
dry fruits
Clue: What waxy, relatively impermeable layer covers the aerial parts of a plant to prevent desiccation?
Answer: Cuticle
clue: What specialized cells in the phloem lack a nucleus and are responsible for the transport of organic nutrients?
Answer: Sieve-tube members (or elements)
Clue: What symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungi increases the surface area for mineral and water absorption?
Answer: Mycorrhizae
Clue: What is the term for a plant's growth response to a mechanical stimulus, such as a vine wrapping around a trellis?
Answer: Thigmotropism
Clue: What is the male gametophyte of a flowering plant called?
Answer: Pollen Grain
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which chemical polymer is deposited in the secondary cell walls of vascular plants, providing the structural rigidity necessary for plants to grow tall.
lignin
Answer: Prothallus
Clue: What is the innermost layer of the root cortex that contains the Casparian strip to regulate water entry into the vascular cylinder?
Answer: Endodermis
Clue: What is the term for the pressure exerted by the central vacuole against the plant cell wall, keeping the plant upright?
Answer: Turgor Pressure
Clue: What blue-green leaf pigment exists in two forms (Pr and Pfr) and allows plants to detect day length?
Answer: Phytochrome
Clue: What type of fruit, such as a blackberry, is derived from a single flower that has many separate carpels?
Answer: Aggregate Fruit
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Clue: What specific type of leaf, characteristic of lycophytes, contains only a single strand of vascular tissue?
Answer: Microphyll
Clue: What lateral meristem is responsible for the production of secondary xylem (wood) and secondary phloem?
Answer: Vascular Cambium
Clue: What specialized bacteria live in root nodules and convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form the plant can use?
Answer: Rhizobia (or Nitrogen-fixing bacteria)
Clue: What hormone is known as the "stress hormone" because it initiates stomatal closure during a water deficiency?
Answer: Abscisic Acid (ABA)
Clue: What is the term for plants that have separate male (staminate) and female (carpellate) flowers on the same individual?
Answer: Monoecious
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Clue: This phenomenon describes the tendency of a plant to grow toward a light source, caused by the migration of auxin to the shady side of the stem
positive phototropism
Clue: What is the name of the "naked seed" plant group that produces seeds in cones rather than within a fruit?
Answer: Gymnosperms
Clue: What are the "hairs" produced by epidermal cells that can protect a plant from herbivory or help reduce water loss?
Answer: Trichomes
What are the "pores" or openings in the bark of a woody stem that allow for gas exchange?
Answer: What are lenticels?
Clue: What are the three steps of the signal transduction pathway that allow a plant cell to respond to an environmental stimulus?
Answer: Reception, Transduction, and Response
Clue: What is the name of the asexual reproduction method where a new plant is grown from a single cell or a small piece of tissue in a laboratory?
Answer: Tissue Culture (or Micropropagation)
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These specific plant types will only flower if the period of darkness is longer than a specific critical length.
short-day plants
Clue: What term describes the evolution of a plant life cycle where the sporophyte and gametophyte look completely different from one another?
alternation of generations
Clue: What lateral meristem is responsible for the production of the periderm (the outer "bark") in woody plants?
Answer: Cork cambium
what property of water molecules allows them to cling to each other, forming a continuous column in the xylem?
cohesion
Clue: What is the name for the 24-hour biological cycles in plants that persist even in the absence of external environmental cues?
Answer: What are circadian rhythms?
Clue: What are the two main parts of a seed's embryo that will eventually develop into the first leaves and the primary root?
the plumule (leaves) and the radicle (root)
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Clue: This term refers to the death of plant cells or organs, such as leaves dropping in the fall, which is regulated by the balance of ethylene and auxin
senescence