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These structures are responsible for transport of water and nutrients up and down the plant, respectively.
What are the xylem and phloem?
The largest organelle in the cell, this structure contains all DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This nutrient is required for nearly everything - 95% of it is used to construct proteins, nucleic acids, and amino acids.
What is Nitrogen?
Endomycorrhizae build these two types of structures in the root.
What are arbuscules and vesicles?
This structure separates the interior of the cell from the outside environment and is comprised of phospholipids.
What is the plasma membrane?
These air pockets in the cortex form as a result of programmed cell death.
What are aerenchyma?
Unlike animals cells, plant cells are surrounded by this, which helps retain a rigid structure.
What is the cell wall?
Though toxic, this nutrient is required for stabilizing membranes and the cell wall.
What is Calcium?
Contrary to endomycorrhizae, this type of fungus forms its association around the root without penetrating it.
What is ectomycorrhizae?
Cell expansion, like in stomatal closure, uses this key nutrient to occur.
What is potassium?
These single cell extensions increase the total surface area of the root and enable greater uptake of certain nutrients.
What are root hairs?
These tube-like organelles generate much of the power needed to carry out cellular processes.
What are mitochondria?
Among other things, this nutrient serves as the central molecular in chlorophyll and is an important co-factor for ATP production.
What is Magnesium?
Mycorrhizae are most commonly thought to increase acquisition of this important nutrient.
What is phosphorus?
The cell wall contains several different compounds, including cellulose, hemicellulose, and this.
What is pectin?
This structure is suberized and is a barrier to radial transport of water an nutrients.
What is the Casparian Strip?
This large organelle stores materials like water, sugar, minerals, and waste products.
What is the vacuole?
Though needed in smaller quantities, this nutrient facilitates plant respiration, photosynthesis, and phenolic metabolism.
What is Iron?
A parasitic fungus penetrates host tissue and absorbs nutrients with this.
What is a haustorium?
Nitrite reduction and ammonium assimilation generally take place in these parts of the plant cell.
What are plastids?
This structure eases movement of the growing root tip by secreting mucilage and shedding cells.
What is the root cap?
This jelly-like structure surrounds organelles and is mainly composed of water.
What is the cytoplasm?
Though needed in small quantities, this nutrient is critical for carrying out the water splitting stage of photosynthesis and scavenging radicals.
What is Manganese?
What is carbon?
Lateral roots emerge from asymmetrical divisions of cells in this part of the root.
What is the pericycle?