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Plants: Provision for Life- Malia Nelson-A Beka Book- Science Order and Reality

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Biology   The study of living things  
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Botany   The branch of biology that specializes in plants  
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Botanists   Scientists who study plants  
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Christian Konrad Sprengel   A botanists who was a Christian and recorded many important details about flowers that were not appreciated until after he died. He wanted to give all glory to God for his astounding work.  
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Cross-fertilization   Because flowers cannot fertilize themselves, wind or insects must pollinate them; This is cross-fertilization.  
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Pistil   A vase-shaped structure on a plant that also contains the ovary  
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Stigma   The top of the pistil  
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Style   The curved in middle part of the pistil  
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Ovary   Holds potential seeds  
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Potential seeds   Ovules  
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Stamens   One or more structures that surround the pistil. Consists of an anther.  
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Anther   Rests at the top of a hairlike filament. The function of the anther is to produce pollen grains.  
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Staminate, pistillate   flowers that have only stamens or pistils  
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Petals   Surrounds the pistil and stamens; it's purpose is to attract insects or birds that pollinate the plant.  
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Sepals   Leaf-like structures that surround the petals  
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Bud   The developing flower  
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Receptacle   The enlarged upper portion of the stem  
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Dissect   Cut appart  
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Pollination   The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma  
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Fertilization   The formation of a seed by the uniting of a sperm nucleus from a pollen grain with an egg cell.  
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Self-pollination   The flower has such an excess of pollen that the flower usually undergoes this process.  
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Cross-pollination   When pollen is carried from one plant to another by animals or humans  
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Pollen tube   This grows from the pollen's location on the stigma, through the style, and into the ovary after a pollen grain is attached to a stigma on same kind of plant.  
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Sperm nucleus   Divides to form the sperm nuclei.  
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After the sperm nucleus divides to form the sperm nuclei, the sperm nuclei slide through this tube, and one of them unites with the _______ _________.   Egg cell  
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Embryo   A miniature plant  
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The embryo is a miniature plant made up of a _________.   Plumule  
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Radicle   A small root  
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Cotyledons   Structures designed for food absorption and storage  
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Endosperm   Holds stored food  
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Seed coat   Tough outer covering  
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Germination   The early growth of a seed  
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Monocotyledons (Monocots)   Plant's whose seeds have only one cotyledon  
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Dicotyledons (Dicots)   Plants that have two cotyledons  
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Fruit   Anything that forms from the ovary of a flower  
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Dispersal   The scattering or distributing of seeds  
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Mechanical dispersal   Occurs when the ripened fruit bursts open and scatter the seeds some distance from the plant  
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Agent dispersal   Dispersal by animals, wind, or water  
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Germinate   Begin growing  
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Photosynthesis   The food-making process of plants  
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Composite family   Composite means "put together". A composite "flower is actually many small flowers grouped together into a head. (Head is an important word!)  
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Disk flowers   Many closely-packed, tubular disk flowers form the head's center  
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Ray flowers   Showy, peddle-like flowers that surround the center of a flower  
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Pea family   The third largest angiosperm family have flowers that resemble the pea blossom. Members of this family, also called legumes get their name from their seedpods, or legumes, that split along two sides when the seeds are fully developed.  
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Nitrogen cycle   Something Legume plants help to restore to the soil  
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Rose family   A family of plants with white, pink, or rose-colored blossoms. Most plants in the rose family have woody stems, fleshy fruits, and flower parts in multiples of 5. There are more than 3,000 species.  
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Buttercup family   This family usually has flowers with 5 rounded petals (or petal-like sepals ) that form a cup-shaped blossom a few plants of this family have red, white, blue, or purple flowers  
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Honeysuckle family   Honeysuckles have and abundance of beautiful trumpet shaped flowers which may be white, yellow, pink, purple, or bright scarlet. After pollination, these flowers are replaced by red, yellow, black, and white berries.  
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Spikes   Long flower arrangement with clusters attached directly to the stem.  
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Mint family   The stems of mints are square and stout and their flower clusters frequently form spikes.  
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Parsley Family   Members of this family have clusters of small flowers arranged in umbels. Members of the parsley family have compound umbels.  
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Milkweed Family   This family has flowers arranged in umbels every flower has five nectar horns each consisting of a cup like hood and a slender crest a petal hangs downward from each nectar horn.  
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Umbels   This word is from the Latin word umbella from which we get our word umbrella.  
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Amaryllis Family   Contains over 800 species and grow in warm areas or as potted plants in colder climates. The flowers of these plants usually grow on leafless stalks. Over half of the 800 amaryllis species grow from bulbs the rest grow from corms or rhizomes.  
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Bulb   A structure made of layers of thick, fleshy leaves surrounding a very short stem.  
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Corms   Thick, vertical underground stems  
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Rhizomes   Horizontal stems lying along or just under the ground.  
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Almost _____-_____ of flowering plants are dicots.   Three forths  
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Inferior   Attached below the other flower parts. The ovary of an amaryllis is inferior.  
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Superior   Attached above the other flower parts, like the ovaries of lilies and most other flowers.  
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Node   The place where the leaf attaches to the stem  
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Blade   The broad, flat portion of a leaf  
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Sheath   Attaches the culm to the blade  
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Stolon   A creeping stem that grows along the ground  
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Racemes   Inconspicuous flower clusters growing along a main stem in spikes  
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Grains   Fertilized grass flowers  
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Grasses cover ___-_____ of the earth's land area.   One third  
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Three basic leaf shapes   Broad, flat leaves; long, narrow leaves; and needlelike or scalelike leaves  
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The location of the leaves on a plant allows each leaf to have _______ exposure to light.   Maximum  
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Most leaf blades attach to the node by a stalk called a _______.   Petiole  
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What are the four most common leaf arrangements?   Opposite, alternate, whorled, and rosette  
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Sessile   Leaves that have no petioles but instead attach directly to the stem by a sheath.  
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Simple leaves   Leaves that have only one blade attached to a petiole  
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Compound leaf   Has more than one blade joined to a petiole  
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Leaflets   The blades of compound leaves  
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Palmately compound   When a compound leave that has all the leaflets attached at a common point on the petiole's tip  
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Pinnately compound   A compound leaf that has leaflets that attach a intervals along the petiole  
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Leaf margins   The edges of leaves  
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Name three different types of leaf margins.   Toothed, lobed, and entire  
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Entire margins   Margins that are smooth and unbroken  
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Toothed margins   Margins that have small, sharp teeth or large, blunt teeth  
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Producers   Because plants make their own food they are called this.  
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Consumers   Animals and people who eat plants are called this.  
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Chloroplasts   Chemical factories containing chlorophyll  
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Chlorophyll   The green pigment found in plants  
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Chlorophyll absorbs light energy that the plant uses to form the chemical _________ ___________.   Adenosine triphosphate  
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Stomata   Pores on the underside of the leaf  
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Starches   Complex chains of glucose units  
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Cellulose   A carbohydrate found in the cell wall of plant cells  
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Glucose   A plant's simple sugar  
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Resperation   Through a series of complex reactions, respiration combines glucose (or the other compounds made from it) with oxygen to produce energy along with carbon dioxide and water.  
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Unlike ______________ which can only occur during the day respiration occurs all day and night.   Photosynthesis  
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Paper chromatography   A method some scientists use to separate pigment mixtures  
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Taproot systems   In which the primary (main) root grows straight down and remains larger than the secondary roots that branch out from it  
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What three important things do roots do for the plant?   1. Anchors the plant in the soil 2. Absorbs water and minerals for plant growth 3. Stores food  
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Fibrous root systems   In which the primary root remains small and many slender secondary roots grow from it in all directions  
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Vegetative reproduction   When a plant's roots spreads out to make new plants  
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The tip of a root consists of both an outer and inner of this, made from dead cells and an inner area of new growth cells that form immediately behind this.   Root cap  
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Primary growth   Growth in length  
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Secondary growth   Growth in diameter  
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Root hairs   Develops from the sides of the root and force their way between soil particles to absorb necessary nutrients.  
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Water and dissolved chemicals are absorbed through the cell membranes of the root hairs by the process of _______.   Osmosis  
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Osmosis   The continual movement of water from a solution of higher content through a semipermeable membrane into a solution of lower content  
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Semipermeable membrane   A membrane that allows only certain molecules to pass through  
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Xylem (opposite of Phloem)   This tissue carries water and nutrient from the root hairs to the leaves where the water is used in photosynthesis or released through to stomata  
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Phloem   This tissue carries sugars from the leaves to the stem and roots to be stored  
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Root preassure   The upward force that results as water enters the roots by osmosis  
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Tranpiartion   Evaporation from the leaves  
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Capillarity (Also known as capillary action)   The tendency of water molecules to move up through a tiny space.  
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Most plants do not store glucose directly instead they do what?   Plants covert excess glucose into starches  
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