click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
mrs gemmer's ap bio
ch 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abscisic acid (ABA) | plant hormone that causes stomata to close and initiates and maintains dormancy |
| abscission | dropping of leaves, fruits, or flowers from a land plant |
| alkaloid | bitter-tasting nitrogenous compounds that have a basic pH (e.g. caffiene) |
| apical dominance | influence of a terminal bud in suppressing the growth of axillary buds |
| auxin | plant hormone regulating growth, particularly cell elongation; also called indoleacetic acid |
| biological clock | internal mechanism that maintains a biological rythm in the absence of environmental stimuli |
| cellular response | response to the transduction pathway in which proteins or enzymes change a signal to a format that the cell can understand, resulting in the appropriate response |