MCAT Bio - Plants:Essential Processes

MCAT Bio - Plants:Essential Processes

1. Terms:

   • Abscisic Acid
   • Acid Growth Hypothesis
   • Active Transport
   • Apoplast
   • Auxin
   • Cytokinin
   • Day-Neutral Plant
   • Ethylene
   • Florigen
   • Gibberellin
   • Gravitotropism
   • Hormone
   • Inhibitor
   • Leaf Abscission
   • Long-Day Plant
   • Osmosis
   • Phloem
   • Photoperiodism
   • Photosynthesis
   • Phototropism
   • Phytochrome
   • Pressure Flow
   • Root Hair
   • Short-Day Plant
   • Sieve Element
   • Thigmotropism
   • Vascular Tissue

2. Water Transport

   • Vascular systems
     • xylem
       • Dead cells
       • form tunnels
       • Move upward from roots
         • TATC
     • phloem
       • Living cells
       • Photosynthesis
       • Organic nutrients
   • Cellular level
     • Osmosis

3. Hormones

   • Auxins
     • Elongate plant cells
     • Phototropism
     • Acid growth
     • Lower pH
     • Root developments
     • fruit development
   • Cytokinins
     • cell division
     • tissue growth
     • depend on auxins
     • stem and leaf growth
     • chloroplasts
     • aging
   • Gibberellins
     • stimulate growth
     • germination
     • root growth
     • differentation
     • embryo
   • Inhibitors
     • restrain growth
     • dormancy
     • abscisic acid
     • guard cells
   • Ethylene
     • ripening
     • senescence
     • leaf loss
     • horizontal growth

4. Photoperiodism

   • Time of year
   • Length of night
   • Short day plants
   • Long day plants
   • day neutral plants
   • Florigen
   • Phytochrome

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