This closest relative to land plants lives on the shores of lakes and rivers.
What is green algae/charophyte?
100
Application of this gaseous hormone ripens fruit at your local grocery store instead of on the plant.
What is ethylene gas?
100
Don't get stuck on this process performed by prokaryotes which is necessary to convert free atmospheric N2 into usable NH3 for plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
100
These plants flower when the number of "dark" hours exceeds the number of "light" hours.
What are short-day plants?
100
Unlike carpels, these parts of the flower produce pollen and are made up of anthers and filaments.
What are the stamen?
200
This polymer prevents exposed zygotes from drying out but is also adapted to encase the spores of land plants.
What is sporopollenin?
200
This type of pathogen neither severely harms nor kills host plants.
What is a non-virulent/avirulent pathogen?
200
Examples of this programmed cell death include leaves falling in autumn and flowers dying after fertilization.
What is senescence?
200
Name this gene:
isolated from a microbe,
successfully kills insects feeding on crops,
integrated into the DNA of many crop plant lines, most commonly used in corn.
What is Bt? or What is the Bacillus thuringiensis delta endotoxin gene?
200
This tissue type is the outer layer, like skin, providing a barrier against physical damage and pathogens.
What is the dermal tissue? Or What is the epidermis?
300
This last stage of seed development is characterized by dehydration and cessation of metabolism and growth.
What is dormancy?
300
After a signal on the cell surface is received, this system transduces and amplifies the signal before other proteins carry out the cellular response.
Nitrogen, carbon, and oxygen are in this group of largely essential elements is needed in large amounts in plants LARGE and small.
What are macronutrients?
300
Based on the word for "tree" and the word for "time", this word is used to describe the analyzation of growth ring patterns in trees.
What is dendrochronology?
300
These predecessors of photosynthetic tissue can look like fingers alongside of the apical meristem.
What are leaf primordia?
400
An imperative development in the creation of seeded plants, this event resulted in less visible haploids.
What is the reduction of the gametophyte?
400
When a plant is shaded by its taller neighbor, this red-light sensing system triggers the plant to grow taller to avoid the shade.
What is the phytochrome system?
400
This mutualistic fungus has hyphae that grow into or in between plant cells in the root.
What are arbuscular mycorrhizae/ symbiotic endomycorrhizae?
400
This meristematic tissue layer generates both wood and bark, residing between the xylem and phloem.
What is the (vascular) cambium?
500
By using this (___) strategy for reproduction, early land plants primarily relied on this (___) reproductive cell to concur the world.
What is alternation of generations and the spore?
500
This acid acts as the primary internal signaling molecule enabling plants to withstand drought; it accumulates in leaves, causing stomata to close, thereby reducing water loss.