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Botany Review

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Definition
Weed   A plant growing where it is not wanted.  
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Crop   A plant that is raised for the production of food and/or fiber for people or animals.  
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Botany   The study of plants  
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Paleozoic Era   More than 500 million years ago  
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Ordovician Period   505-438 million years ago  
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Angiosperms   The flowering plants  
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Cretaceous Period   About 355 million years ago  
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Vascular   Structural support, water conduction  
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Phloem   Food conduction. Roots, stems, and leaves  
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Nonvascular   Mosses, no more than 1 or 2 inches tall. No special tissues like xylem and phloem.  
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Cell Wall   Protects, structurally supports cells  
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Chloroplast   Specializes in photosynthesis  
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Central Vacuole   Increases cell surface area, stores metabolic wastes  
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Nucleus   Keeps DNA and its transcription into RNA away from potentially damaging reactions in cytoplasm  
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Nuclear Envelope   PART OF NUCLEUS- double membrane perforated with pores that control the flow of materials in and out of the nucleus  
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Nucleolus   PART OR NUCLEUS- a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus, where ribosomes are made, synthesized and partially assembled  
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DNA in Nucleoplasm   PART OF NUCLEUS- Chromatin: holds hereditary material  
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Ribosomes   Attached to rough ER and free in cytoplasm sites of protein synthesis  
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Rough ER   Modifies new polypeptide chains; synthesized lipids  
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Smooth ER   Diverse roles; e.g. makes lipids, degrades fats, inactivates toxins  
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Golgi Apparatus   Modifies, sorts and ships proteins and lipids for exports or for insertion into cell membranes  
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Lysosome- Like Vesicle   Digests, recycles materials  
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Plasma Membrane   Selectively controls the kinds and amounts of substances moving into and out of the cell; helps maintain cytoplasmic volume and composition  
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Plasmodesmata   Communicates junction between adjoining cells  
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Mitochondrion   Energy power-house produces many ATP or aerobic respiration  
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Cytoskeleton   Structurally supports, impacts shape and moves cell and its componants  
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Microtubules   PART OF CYTOSKELETON- Hollow tubes of protein that support the cell and moves organelles within the cell  
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Micofilaments   PART OF CYTOSKELETON- Protein fibers that help the cell contract and move  
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Intermediate Filaments   PART OF CYTOSKELETON- Threadlike proteins in the cell's cytoskeleton that are roughly twice as thick as microfilaments  
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Tonoplast   Holds vacuole together  
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Peroxisome   Where hydrogen peroxide and other harmful molecules are broken down by enzymes  
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Alternate   Leaf arrangement, one leaf at each node of the stem  
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Annual   A plant whose life duration is a year or less.  
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Awn   A bristle-like tip: most frequently used with respect to bristle or hair like projections from glumes, lemmas, or paleas of grass spikelets.  
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Berry   A fleshy, several-seeded fruit.  
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Biennial   A plant whose life is two years.  
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Bulb   An underground perennial, storage organ consisting of a stem axis and numerous, overlapping leaf scales.  
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Capillary   Thread-like. A small tube that helps draw water.  
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Compound (leaf)   A leaf whose blade is divided into two or more distinct leaflets.  
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Dissected (leaf)   A leaf whose blade is cut into numerous, narrow lobes.  
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Entire   The margin of a leaf which is untoothed.  
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Fibrous Roots   A root system, as in grasses, compound of numerous, separate roots rather than one main root.  
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Infloresence   A cluster of flowers, or the flower-bearing portion or portions of a plant.  
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Internode   Portion of a stem between nodes.  
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Irregular   A flower with petals which differ in size. Example: Flowers of the legume family.  
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Leaflet   A secondary division of a compound leaf.  
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Margin   Edge of a leaf.  
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Node   The part of the stem from which leaves and branches arise.  
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Opposite (leaves)   The leaves paired at each node.  
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Palmately Compound   A compound leaf in which the leaflets all arise from the same point  
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