9.3 - Growth in Plants

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Across
  1. 7. A directional response to gravity
  2. 9. the propagation of plants by growing plantlets in tissue culture and then planting them out.
  3. 11. a plant hormone that causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth.
  4. 12. the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground, but occasionally subterranean.
Down
  1. 1. Meristem is considered to be.......... as it is not yet specialised
  2. 2. Produced in the root and cause axillary bud growth
  3. 3. A directional response to light
  4. 4. the turning or bending movement of an organism or a part of an organism toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light, heat, or gravity.
  5. 5. Another term for auxin (Indole Acetic Acid)
  6. 6. 2 words. the tip of a shoot, the apical or lateral shoot meristematic dome together with the leaf primordial, from which emerge the leaves and sub-adjacent stem tissue.
  7. 8. a region of plant tissue, found chiefly at the growing tips of roots and shoots and in the cambium, consisting of actively dividing cells forming new tissue.
  8. 10. Transporter proteins that pump auxin, causing accumulation where it is needed