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Biennial |
This takes two years to complete their life cycle |
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Perennial |
These plants live for many years and produce seeds every year |
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Meristematic |
Producing new cells by mitosis in the shoots and roots |
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Vascular tissue |
Transport tissue, xylem and phloem |
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Xylem |
Transports water and dissolved minerals |
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Phloem |
Transports food around the plant |
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Monocot |
One cotyledon, parallel leaf veins, vascular bundles scattered |
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Dicot |
Two cotyledons, netted leaf veins, vascular bundles in a ring like pattern |
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Phototropism |
Plants response to light |
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Pollination |
The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of another plant |
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Photosynthesis |
Water+carbon dioxide--->sunlight and chlorophyll +oxygen+energy |
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Igneous |
Formed by the cooling of molten lava |
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Sedimentary |
Fragments of sediments from other rock types and compacted together |
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Metamorphic |
Rocks the are expressed to great pressure or heat and are changed |
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Gene |
Section of a chromosome the controls a specific trait |
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Chromosome |
A strand of DNA found in nucleus containing genes |
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Allele |
Different form of the same gene |
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Locus |
Location of a gene on a chromosome |
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Genotype |
Set of genes an individual possesses |
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Phenotype |
Physical appearance of an organism |
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Gamete |
Sex cells |
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Dominant |
Genes that are always expressed if present |
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Recessive |
Only expressed if dominant is absent |
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Homozygous |
Either two recessive or two dominant genes |
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Heterozygous |
One dominant or one recessive gene |
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Homologous chromosomes |
Pair of chromosomes with identical genes on them |
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Haploid |
1 set of chromosomes |
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Diploid |
Two sets of chromosomes |
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