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| A plant's vascular system does what? |
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| carries water, food, and nutrients to the plant |
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| Based on their seed covreings, name and describe the two types of vascular plants. |
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| a.angiosperms-covered or enclosed seeds b. gymnosperms-exposed seeds |
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| List two nonvascular plants. |
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| What is a monocot and a dicot? |
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| a.a monocot is a plant whose seed contains one cotyledon b.a dicot is a plant whose seed contains two cotyledons |
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| What are the parts of the internal structure of a leaf? |
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a.palisade parenchyma b.xylem c.phloem d.lower epidermis d.cuticle e.upper epidermis e.spongy parenchyma f.stoma g.guard cell
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| What is the system of naming living things by their genus and species names? |
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| Most gymnosperms are called what? |
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| Evergreens, because they don't lose their leaves in the fall. |
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| The sporophyte generation ofthe fern's life cycle reproduces how? |
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| The primary function of stems what? |
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| The conduction bundles of dicots are arranged where? |
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| in a ring near the epidermis |
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| Annual rings in trees are the result of what? |
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| The differences between the size and number of xylem cells produced in the spring and those produced in the fall. |
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| Cells in the mesophyll contain many chloroplasts that contain what and are responsible for what? |
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| contain chlorophyll and are responsible for photosynthesis |
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| What is the chemical formula for photosynthesis? |
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| Be able to write the chemical formula for photosynthesis. |
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| A plants ability to absorb water and nutrients is greatly increased by what? |
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| by the millions of root hairs |
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| What are three types of leaflet arrangements? |
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a.whorled b.spiral or alternate c.opposite
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| What are the parts of a flower? |
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a.stamen or filament b.style or pistil c.petal d.sepal e.stigma
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| a flower lacking either a sepal, petal, stamen, or pistil |
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| includes the palisade tissue and the spongy tissue |
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| the female organ of the flower |
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| the male organ of a flower |
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| the vein pattern of the blade of a leaf |
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| The reproductive pattern of the life cycle of a fern is called what? |
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| alternation of generations |
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| Most gymnosperms reproduce sexually how? |
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| by means of male pollen cones and female seed cones |
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| The primary function of leaves is what? |
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| to use energy from the sun and transform raw materials into plant food |
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| Vascular tisues, call xylem, do what? |
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| bring water and dissolved minerals to all leaf cells |
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| Grafting is one method of what? |
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| taking a cutting from plant and attaching it to a rooted stem of another plant called the stock. |
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| What are the tow main types of root systems in plants? |
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| taproots and fibrous roots |
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| A perfect flower must possess what sturctures? |
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| female pistil and male stamens |
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| What is the prupose of fruit? |
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| protect seeds from insects and disease |
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| In what way do angiosperms and gymnosperms differ? |
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| Angiosperms have covered or enclosed seeds, but gymnosperms have exposed seeds. |
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| What are the three regions of development in a root? |
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| apical meristem, zone of elongation, zone of maturation |
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| Of what three parts do all seeds consist? |
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| embryo, food supply, seed coat |
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| The stem of the fern, the rhizome, grows how? |
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| The rhizome grows horizontally underground with roots branching from the rhizome. |
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| What are the two main parts of most leaves? |
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| What kind of fruit is a pineapple? |
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| What includes spongy tissue and palisade tissue? |
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| What is alternation of generations? |
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| the reproductive pattern of the life cycle of a fern |
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| WHat causes the diameter of a woody stem to increase? |
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| secondary tissues are added |
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| What is the difference in cross-pollination and self-pollination? |
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| Cross-pollination is the transfer of pollen to a flower on a different plant. Self-pollination is the transfer of pollen to a stigma on the same flower or another flower on the same plant. |
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