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Plant Processes
Ch5 Plant Processes From Bacteria To Plants
Vocab Ch.5 | Definitions |
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Photosynthesis | Food making process that takes place in the chloroplasts of plant cells,where light Energy is used to produce glucose and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water. |
Respiration | Series of chemical reactions used to realese energy stored in food molecules. |
Tropism | Positive of negative plant response to an External stimulus such as touch, light, or gravity. |
Auxin | Plant hormone that causes plant leaves and stems to exhibit positive phototropisms. |
Photoperiodism | A plant's response to the lengths of daylight and darkness each day. |
Long-day plant | Plant that generally requires short nights-less than 10 to 12 hrs of darkness to begin flowering process. |
Short-day plant | Plant than generally requires long nights-12 or more hrs of darkness to begin flowering process |
Day-neutral plants | Plant that doesn't require a specific photoperiod and can begin the flowering process over a range of night lengths. |