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Category: Learn Botany Glossary

  • Phloem

    {“group”:”Anatomy”,”term”:”Phloem”,”exam”:”Direction depends on source-sink relations, not only upward.”}

  • Inflorescence

    {“group”:”Morphology”,”term”:”Inflorescence”,”exam”:”A lone flower on a pedicel is solitary, not a many-flowered inflorescence.”}

  • Cohesion-tension

    {“group”:”Physiology”,”term”:”Cohesion-tension”,”exam”:”The accepted theory for tall trees; root pressure is too weak alone.”}

  • Root pressure

    {“group”:”Physiology”,”term”:”Root pressure”,”exam”:”Guttation is evidence of root pressure, not of transpiration pull.”}

  • Meristem

    {“group”:”Growth & hormones”,”term”:”Meristem”,”exam”:”Permanent tissues are derived from meristems.”}

  • Binomial nomenclature

    {“group”:”Taxonomy”,”term”:”Binomial nomenclature”,”exam”:”The species name is the whole binomial, not the epithet alone.”}

  • Lichen

    {“group”:”Major groups”,”term”:”Lichen”,”exam”:”Fungus gives structure; photobiont gives carbon.”}

  • Pioneer species

    {“group”:”Ecology”,”term”:”Pioneer species”,”exam”:”Classic xerosere start: lichens on rock.”}

  • Pulse

    {“group”:”Economic botany”,”term”:”Pulse”,”exam”:”Pulses are legumes; cereals are grasses.”}

  • Vacuole

    {“group”:”Cell biology”,”term”:”Vacuole”,”exam”:”The vacuolar membrane is the tonoplast.”}