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Category: Learn Botany Glossary

  • Mesophyll

    {“group”:”Anatomy”,”term”:”Mesophyll”,”exam”:”C4 Kranz anatomy rearranges mesophyll around bundle sheaths.”}

  • Corolla

    {“group”:”Morphology”,”term”:”Corolla”,”exam”:”Perianth = calyx + corolla when they look alike (tepals).”}

  • C4 plant

    {“group”:”Physiology”,”term”:”C4 plant”,”exam”:”Advantage in high light, high temperature and relative drought.”}

  • Phytochrome

    {“group”:”Physiology”,”term”:”Phytochrome”,”exam”:”Red light makes Pfr; far-red converts it back to Pr.”}

  • Ethylene

    {“group”:”Growth & hormones”,”term”:”Ethylene”,”exam”:”One ripe banana ripens a bunch: practical ethylene.”}

  • Sporophyte

    {“group”:”Reproduction”,”term”:”Sporophyte”,”exam”:”2n generation.”}

  • Fungi

    {“group”:”Major groups”,”term”:”Fungi”,”exam”:”Not plants: no cellulose wall, no chloroplasts.”}

  • Food chain

    {“group”:”Ecology”,”term”:”Food chain”,”exam”:”A food web is many linked chains.”}

  • Fibre crop

    {“group”:”Economic botany”,”term”:”Fibre crop”,”exam”:”Cotton fibre is almost pure cellulose.”}

  • Plasmodesmata

    {“group”:”Cell biology”,”term”:”Plasmodesmata”,”exam”:”Apoplast = walls and spaces; symplast = cytoplasm linked by plasmodesmata.”}