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life science chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What plant organ that absorbs water | root hairs |
| What term is used for plants response to light | phototropism |
| What term is used for plants response to gravity | gravitropism |
| What term is used for plants response to daylight | photoperiodism |
| What are hormones? | chemicals made by living this that affect how they grow |
| What is the spongy layer? | below palisade layer , air spaces between cells, containing chloroplast, |
| What is xylem? | thin straw like cells that transport water |
| What is transpiration? | the exiting of water through the stomata of a leaf |
| What are lenticels? | (similar to stomata but for woody plants) small opening for oxygen to pass through |
| What is aerobic cellular respiration? | converting sugar produced by photosynthesis in to usable energy |
| What are lipids? | one way plants store sugar, by turning them into these (example: oils) |
| What is vascular cambium? | layer of cells between xylem and phloem that is constantly reproducing more xylem and phloem |
| How does water go through the plant? | root hair-xylem-spongy layer-stomata |
| Photoperiodism is controlled by what? | phytochromes |