BIOL 450 Final Exam

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Across
  1. 2. acronym for a plant's relative consumption of carbon and water
  2. 5. term used to describe the change in a plant community's composition over time from pioneer to climax
  3. 9. plant receptor that changes form with the type of light (red:far red) it receives
  4. 10. plant that flowers only once in its life time, but lives two years
  5. 11. one plant strategy recognized by Grime as occuring in relatively undisturbed, non-stressful environments
  6. 12. term used to describe a plant chemical defense whose production is increased when the plant perceives that it is being attacked by an herbivore
Down
  1. 1. term used to describe species that have imperfect flowers but both staminate (male) and pistillate (female) flowers occur on the same plant
  2. 3. term for a locally-adapted genotype that exhibits home-site-advantage
  3. 4. examples are the timing of flowering or leaf drop
  4. 6. like greeneyes; term used to describe a species that occurs in a single geographic region
  5. 7. measure of a plant community's species richness and evenness
  6. 8. Greek letter used to symbolize a population's potential to increase; if one (1), the population is stable (not growing)