Plant cells are formed at
meristems, and then develop into
cell types which are grouped into
tissues.
Plants have only three
tissue types: 1) Dermal; 2) Ground; and 3) Vascular.
Dermal tissue covers the outer surface of herbaceous
plants.
Full article >>>Plant Succession
Many
plant communities are not self-sustaining. A field in the temperate deciduous forest
biome will remain a field only as
long as it is grazed by
animals or mowed regularly.
Full article >>>Plant sexuality deals with the wide
variety of
sexual reproduction systems found across the
plant kingdom. This article describes morphological aspects of
sexual reproduction of
plants.
Full article >>>The application of genetic ana
lysis to development of
plant lines better suited for
human purposes.
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Full article >>>Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000
species), including familiar
organisms such as trees,
flowers, herbs, and ferns.
Full article >>>Plant nematodes are agricultural pests, the control of which relies on chemical nematicides and fumigants that are among the most toxic and
environmentally damaging of all agrochemicals.
Full article >>>The Jardin de
Plantes maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity. About 4500
plants are arranged by
family on a one hectare (10,000 m²) plot.
Full article >>>Definition: A
plant, that when self-fertilized, only produces
offspring with the same
traits. The
alleles for these type of
plants are
homozygous.
Full article >>>Plants and
animals differ in one important feature: the maintenance of totipotent
cells.
Cells, like the fertilized
egg, which can make all of the
cells of the
organism, are said to be totipotent.
Full article >>>Plants, some
algae, and some
bacteria obtain their energy from light. The light energy is used to bond
molecules of carbon dioxide together to form sugar (
glucose). The energy is stored in
glucose. This process is called
photosynthesis.
Full article >>>Plant Genome Research Begins a New Voyage of Discovery
Plant Genome II was held January 24-27, 1994 in San Diego.
Full article >>>Plants that have a high tolerance to salt and therefore can successfully occupy an
ecosystem with such chemical properties.
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Full article >>>Plants with vascular
tissue, consisting of all modern
species except the mosses and their relatives.
vascular
tissuePlant tissue consisting of
cells joined into tubes that
transport water and nutrients throughout the
plant body.
Full article >>>Plants that do not give mixtures when selfed are said to be
homozygous for the tall
trait.
Those that produce mixtures are said to be
heterozygous.
Heterozygous individuals produce
segregating populations.
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Full article >>>plant hormones:
hormones that regulate the growth and development of many
plants.
plasma: a straw-colored liquid composed primarily of water; the fluid portion of blood.
Full article >>>Plantae One of the five
kingdoms of life;
characterized by being eukaryotic and multicellular, and having rigid
cell walls and
chloroplasts.
Plantar The sole of the
foot.
Full article >>>Plant Pest Act (PPA). See U.S. Department of Agri
culture.
Plant Variety Act (PVA). See U.S. Department of Agri
culture.
Plaque. A clear spot on a lawn of
bacteria or
cultured
cells where
cells have been Iysed by viral infection.
Full article >>>PlantGeography the study of the
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Full article >>>plantigrade Walking on the entire sole of the
foot, as in
humans and bears.
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Animal Diversity III
plaqueA clear area in a lawn of a
bacterial
colony, where the
bacteria have undergone
lysis due to
bacteriophage infection.
Full article >>>Plants evolved from ancient green
algae over 400 million years ago. Both groups use
chlorophyll a and b as photosynthetic
pigments. In addition,
plants and green
algae are the only groups to store
starch in their
chloroplasts.
Full article >>>A
plant species in which male and female
organs occur in the same
flower of a single individual (compare
monoecious).
An
animal with both male and female sex
organs.
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plants are widely scattered. In areas of shad-
scale, about 10 percent of the ground is covered, but in some areas of sagebush it approaches 85 percent.
Plant heights vary between 15 cm and 122 cm.
Full article >>>Host plant resistance: The relative amount of heritable qualities possessed by a
plant that reduces the degree of damage to the
plant by a pest or pests.
Hyper
parasite: A
parasite whose
host is another
parasite.
Indigenous: Native to an area.
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Full article >>>basic
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Full article >>>summer
planting. A system of strawberry
culture in which
planting occurs in summer and fruit production begins the following spring.
Full article >>>Annual: a
plant with a lifespan of one year. Biennial: a
plant with a lifespan of two years. Often only
flowers and sets
seed during the second year.
Full article >>>Biota The
plant and
animal life of a particular region or period.
Character A heritable feature (e.g. tooth shape or
DNA sequence) of a group of
organisms that exists in multiple forms.
Full article >>>a vascular
plant that bears naked seeds not enclosed in any specialized chambers.
Full article >>>: A grouping of
plant ecosystems into a large distinct group occupying a major terrestrial region. They are created and maintained by climate. See examples of
biomes
.
Full article >>>Outside (nonliving) factors which can cause harmful effects to
plants, such as soil conditions, drought, extreme temperatures. Abzyme. See Catalytic
antibody.
Adaptive radiation.
Full article >>>Calvin cycle The cyclic pathway used by
plants to fix carbon dioxide and produce triose phosphates. Named after Melvin Calvin, an early worker in the field.
Full article >>>Cell wall - multi-layered, sturdy structure composed of
cellulose that provides
plants and other
organisms with their rigidity
Centrioles - essential tubular
organelles found near the
nucleus in pairs that aid in cellular
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Full article >>>Mitochondrial DNA Mitochondria, and
chloroplasts in
plants, carry their own small
chromosomes, usually in multiple copies per
organelle. These carry a limited number of genes which
code for r
RNA, t
RNA and a few
organelle proteins.
Full article >>>Herbivore. An
organism that consumes
plants
Harmful algal bloom. A bloom of (usually) planktonic micro
algae belonging to a
strain of a
species that has a toxic harmful to marine
organisms or
humans consuming marine
organisms.
Full article >>>A
protein molecule in a
plant or
animal that catalyzes specific metabolic reactions without itself being permanently altered or destroyed.
Eukaryotic
cells (or
eukaryotes): ...
Full article >>>Gemini
virus One of the two groups of
DNA viruses that infect
plants, the members of which have potential as
cloning vectors for some
species of higher
plants.
Full article >>>embryology - study of
embryogenesis, the development of
animals and
plants from
fertilization to birth/hatching.
epiboly - literally, "over the ball," usually the growth of epidermal
ectoderm to cover the surface of the
embryo during
gastrulation.
Full article >>>TRANSGENIC - An
animal (usually a
mouse) or
plant into which a foreign
gene has been introduced in the
germ line. An example:
transgenic mice
expressing the
human receptor for polio
virus are susceptible to
human polioviruses.
Full article >>>carbon fixation cycle (Calvin-Benson cycle) - process by which green
plants incorporate carbon atoms from atmospheric carbon dioxide into sugars. This is the second stage of
photosynthesis.
Full article >>>[Gr. zoon -
animal; planktos - wandering]. Minute aquatic
animals that drift freely in the plankton, feeding mainly on phytoplankton (
plant-like
organisms) and having no locomotory structures.
Full article >>>Haploid: A single set of
chromosomes (half the full set of
genetic material), present in the
egg and
sperm cells o f
animals and in the
egg and pollen
cells of
plants.
Human beings have 23
chromosomes in their
sex cells. Compare to
diploid.
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Full article >>>Haploid: A single set of
chromosomes (half the full set of
genetic material), present in the
egg and
sperm cells of
animals and in the
egg and pollen
cells of
plants.
Human beings have 23
chromosomes in their reproductive
cells. Compare
diploid.
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