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tree of life: plants
plants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| indeterminate growth | plants growing throughout their life |
| root system | anchors the plant and takes in water and nutrients from the soil |
| shoot system | harvest light and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce sugars |
| taproot | a large vertical main root of a plant |
| lateral roots | a plant root extending from another, older root |
| herbaceous plants | seed plants that lacks woody tissue |
| perennial | living for many years |
| phenotype plasticity | changeable form |
| adventitious | means they develop from the shoot system instead of the root system |
| stems | vertical aboveground structures |
| nodes | where leaves are attached |
| leaf | an appendage that projects from a stem laterally |
| axillary buds | the nodes where leaves attach to the stem |
| branch | a lateral extension of the shoot system |
| apical bud | the tip of each stem and branch |
| spines | protective structures |
| stolons | modified stems that grow over the soil surface |
| rhizomes | stems that grow horizontally instead of vertically |
| thorns | modified stems that help protect the plant from attacks by large herbivores |
| blade | an expanded portion of a leaf |
| petiole | a stalk of a leaf |
| transpiration | an evaporative process |
| internodes | segments between nodes |
| tubers | underground, swollen ends of rhizomes that function as carbohydrate-storage organs |
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