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Minerals and Rocks
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-Visual discrimination of physical/chemical characteristics ...
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Minerals enter the root by active transport into the symplast of epidermal cells and move toward and into the stele through the plasmodesmata connecting the cells.
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minerals: types of nutrients that include phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, magnesium, and zinc.
mitochondrion: the organelle that is the site of energy production in eukaryotic cells.
molecule: a precise arrangement of atoms of different elements.
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Minerals are trace elements required for normal metabolism, as components of cells and tissues, and for nerve conduction and muscle contraction. They can only be obtained from the diet.
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List of minerals
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Dietary minerals
Essential amino acids
Nootropics (cognitive enhancers)
Dietary supplement
Illnesses related to poor nutrition
Pharmacology
Vitamin poisoning (overdose) ...
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strategic minerals Materials a country cannot produce itself but that it uses for essential materials or processes.
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Plants move minerals (inorganic ions) into their roots by active transport.
The gills of marine fish have cells that can remove salt from the body by pumping it into the salt water.
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The dissolving of minerals and other elements in soil or rocks by the downward movement of water.
leading strand
The new continuous complementary DNA strand synthesized along the template strand in the mandatory 5' to 3' direction.
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While movement of water and minerals through the xylem is driven by negative pressures (tension) most of the time, movement through the phloem is driven by positive hydrostatic pressures.
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So the scientists also study plants and minerals as well as animals?
We collaborate with partners who work on botanical issues, because we actually don't study plants anymore at the American Museum of Natural History.
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casts -- Fossils formed when water containing minerals leaks into a mold. The minerals harden to form a copy of the original structure or organism.
cataphyll -- In cycads, a scale-like modified leaf which protects the developing true leaves.
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Geology the study of rocks and minerals
(geo = earth; -logy = to study)
Glaucous a term used to describe plants which are green with a grayish or whitish "bloom" on them
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Loss of excessive amounts of salt in sweat can upset the balance of minerals in the blood, which may cause abnormal heart rhythms. Shock also is a risk.
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feeder roots. The youngest roots with root hairs, important in absorption of water and minerals.
field capacity. The moisture level in soil after saturation and runoff.
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The watery fluid portion of blood in which the corpuscular elements are suspended. It transports nutrients as well as wastes throughout the body. Various compounds " including proteins, electrolytes, carbohydrates, minerals, ...
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xylem
The tube-shaped, nonliving portion of the vascular system in plants that carries water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant.
Covered in:
Lab 7 Thalloid and Vascular Plant Organization
Lab 9 Seed Plant Sporophyte ...
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Anti-atherogenic factors include antioxidants, fish oils and other polyunsaturates (if protected from oxidation), fibre and trace minerals such as copper, manganese, selenium and zinc.
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