Plant Nutrition & Transport
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- How does pH affect plant growth?
- How do plants transport water from the roots to the leaves?
- What is solute potential?
- What are some examples of plant transport?
- How does xylem affect turgor pressure?
- What is an apoplast?
- What is a casparian strip made of?
- How are cohesion and adhesion related to surface tension?
- How do cohesion and adhesion explain capillary action?
- What are carnivorous plants?
- How does water flow up a plant?
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- Why do bananas bruise?
- What plants have primitive vascular bundles?
- How do producers make their own food?
- What kind of experiments can I try that are connected with plant physiology?
- Name the photosynthetic organ and photosynthetic organelle in plants?
- Explain how water moves up a plant via transpiration?
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- What are six types of nutrients needed by plants?
- What is the pathway of water through the plant including, xylem, stomata, root hair, epidermis, endoderm?
- What are xylem and phloem?
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- What is the name for the system of tubes in plant tissues that water and food move through?
- How do plants get food?
- How does a plant get food after the stored food in the cotyledon is used up?
- What do plants release into the air during transpiration?
- The size of plants increased dramatically with the evolution of vascular tissue. How might these two events be related?
- What function do vascular tissues allow?
- What makes up the phloem?
- Why does cutting off the tip of the main stem ofa plant often result in the plant growing bushier?
- Depending on the environment a plant is in, more or less gas may be produced. What is a method for measuring the rate of gas production from the aquatic plant in?
- What is the main job of a leaf mesophyll cell?
- Why do the roots of plants usually look white, rather than green?
- How do leaves help a plant to grow?
- What role do roots play in helping a plant to survive?
- Most plants incorporate carbon dioxide into sugar by means of a cycle of reactions called the?
- How is a plant experiencing a water shortage connected to the way a guard cell works?
- In what sort of soil would liverworts and hornworts be expected to be found?
- What does the hornwort sporophyte look like?
- What is a photosystem?
- What are the jobs of the plant's roots?
- How do plants store glucose for later?
- How do new plants obtain the energy needed for growth?
- Why do plant cells that transport water against the force of gravity contain many more mitochondria than other plant cells do?
- Why do non-vascular plants need moisture?
- Where does gas exchange in the plant occur?
- What distinguishes hydroponic growing from traditional methods?
- What is the vein of a leaf made of?
- Why is the process of transpiration and why it is important to plants?
- Are carrots orange? Why?
- Why do you think the top and bottom of the leaf have a cuticle?
- What is chlorophyll found in?
- How could you control the amount of carbon dioxide a plant gets?
- How do you know that green light is not absorbed by chlorophyll?
- What are two major functions of roots. Why are they important to the plant?
- What are the smallest of the plants that contain chlorophyll?
- Why is the ginkgo tree sometimes called a living fossil?
- Is phototropism positive or negative?
- How do plants get sugar?
- In which part of a plant would you not expect to find cells with chloroplasts?
- What is the first part of the Calvin cycle?
- Is transpiration part of the gas exchange system in plants, the water exchange system in plants, or both?
- What does the plant need in order to make its own food?
- Why are some flowers brightly colored?
- Which colors of the visible spectrum does chlorophyll absorb?
- Which life process occurs when carbon dioxide, energy, and water are produced by the combination of food and oxygen with enzymes?
- How do plant roots grow?
- Why do plants require nutrients and how do humans supply those nutrients?
- How would you explain the significance of transpiration?
- In roots, what structure increases surface area for the absorption of water and minerals from the soil?
- What are parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma?
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- How is excretion in plants useful to human beings?
- What are vascular bundles?
- What are bordered pits?
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- What is the energy source plants use to produce high energy sugars?
- What is the gas that the stomata take in and what are the substances that are expelled from these structures?
- When plants produce too much food than can be consumed, what do they store excess food as?
- What happens to carbohydrates in the phloem?
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- Which occurs in the roots of dicots: primary or secondary growth?
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- What is the apoplast?
- How does water move through a plant?
- What is the food made by plants called?