Names, Nutrition, & New Growth
These are the three essential elements most commonly found on most fertilizer products.
What is N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium)?
This anatomical features of C4 plants allow them to better prevent photorespiration.
What is Kranz anatomy?
These are fruits that will continue to produce ethylene following their harvest (bananas, pears, etc).
What are climacteric fruits?
These are the products of photosynthesis.
What is sugar and oxygen?
These are the products of cellular respiration.
What is CO2 and ATP?
These are the primary tissue of roots.
What is the epidermis, cortex, and vascular cylinder?
These are joints in plants that allow for the opening and closing of leaves.
What are pulvinus?
This plant hormone can stimulate the development of virgin fruits, and hastens germination as in barley for beermaking.
What are gibberellins?
These two accessory pigments are the reason for colorful leaves in the fall.
What is carotenes and xanthophylls?
The citric acid cycle (aka the Krebs cycle) takes place here.
What is the matrix of the mitochondrion?
These are the primary meristems of the root system from which the primary tissues arise.
What is the protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium?
This is the elongation of the cells driven by auxin, to grow toward light.
What is phototropism?
This plant hormone prevents germination in seeds.
What is abscisic acid?
This is where the Calvin cycle happen in the mesophyll cells.
What is the stroma of the chloroplasts?
This 3 carbon molecule is a product of glycolysis and in the presence of oxygen is converted to Acetyl CoA.
What is pyruvate?
This is a sequence of DNA that is ideally unique to an organism that allows for it's identification from other species.
What is DNA barcoding?
This is movement in response to an external stimuli is unrelated to the direction of it's stimuli.
What is nastic movement?
When my neighbor prunes their zinnias shift apical dominance and stimulate growth, this major hormone is being redistributed.
What is auxin?
This type of photosynthesis is best utilized in plants with large vacuoles, living in hot environments.
What is crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)?
The ETC in cellular respiration removes electrons from these two coenzymes to release hydrogen ions that flow through ATP synthase creating ATP.
What is Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FADH2)?
This is a measure of the soil's fertility; that is, the soil's ability to store nutrient positively charged ions.
What is cation exchange capacity?
Photoperiodic plants like short and long day plants have a critical value that affects when it flowers. If a light flashed on during their dark period, these plants would flower.
What is long-day plants?
These are amyloplasts in the rootcap that perceive gravity.
What are statoliths?
This occurs when Rubisco fixes oxygen instead of carbon dioxide and the plant ends up with 3-PGA and 3/4 of the original carbon following a recovery process.
What is photorespiration?
This is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain of cellular respiration.
What is Oxygen?