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| Unlike animal cells, plant cells have what which provide structure and protection? |
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| What do most plant cells contain? |
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| the green pigment chloropyll |
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| process where plants use chlorophyll to make food |
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| What is found in a cell structure called a chloroplast? |
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| Most of the space inside many plant cells is taken up by a large, membrane bound structure called what? (it regulates water content) |
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| Why do scientist think plants probabaly evolved from green algae in the sea? |
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1. Plants & green algae have the same types of chlorophyll and charotenoids
2. Fossils of early plants are simialar to the ancient green algae |
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| What happened when plants evolved to land? |
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| they had to adapt to new conditions |
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| What was more avaliable on land? |
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| sunlight and carbon dioxide |
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| waxy, protective layer secreted onto the surface of the plants to live in drier conditions |
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| a chemical compound that provides structure and support awhich allows plants to stand upright on land |
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| What are vascular plants? |
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| use tubelike structures that carry water and nutrients throughout the plant |
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| What lacks tubelik structures and uses other ways to move water and nutrients? |
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| How are plant cells different from animal cells? |
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| they contain cell walls, chlorophyll, and chloroplasts. They perform photosynthesis. |
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