Plant twist and shout
Across
- 7. Auxin pools on the side of the shoot _____ from light.
- 8. Plant secondary compounds can attack an insect's central ________ system.
- 9. the reason you don't put the flower vase next to the fruit bowl
- 11. conformation of phytochrome that absorbs far red light
- 12. "wounding" signal that tells a plant to ramp up production of secondary compounds
- 13. the zone between leaf and stem where the leaf will detach
- 14. tiny starchy grains in a plant's cells that tell it which way is down
- 16. resistance acquired throughout the whole plant to ward off further infection
- 18. (2 words) color of light that tells flowers NOT to bloom
- 19. organism who lays its eggs inside another organism, but is free-living as a adult
- 20. why tendrils recognize and wrap around a trellis
- 23. color of light that controls plant elongation
- 24. produced in shoot and travels toward root
- 25. conformation of phytochrome AFTER absorbing far red light
- 26. the "it's too dry" signal that closes down stomata
- 28. (2 words) hypothesis that microfibrils elongate and allow the cell to expand when H+ is pumped out of the plasma membrane
- 29. when a leaf gets old
Down
- 1. a plant defense compound that humans like to absorb through our lungs
- 2. a drink made of seeds, high in Dr. Durrett's favorite secondary plant compound
- 3. chemical that invokes cellular activity
- 4. the kind of pump that lowers pH outside the plasma membrane
- 5. predatory group of insects with highly specific "target" organisms; can also form galls
- 6. what's needed for a chemical signal to activate a target cell
- 10. the reason that shoots grow upward, even in the dark
- 15. response to pathogens that kills off infected plant tissue
- 16. (2 words) plants like my Christmas cactus that flower in winter
- 17. color of light that tells seeds to germinate
- 21. the "on" switch for plant germination
- 22. what happens when a deer eats the tip of a willow twig
- 27. (2 words) plants like zinnias that flower in summer