Plant twist and shout

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