Plant Responses

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Across
  1. 5. Low-temperature stimulation of flowering
  2. 10. Promote cell division in plants
  3. 11. Produced in small quantities by the plant that causes them to grow abnormally tall
  4. 12. Chemicals used to prevent plant growth
  5. 13. Flowers when days are longer/nights are shorter
  6. 20. Plant's response to changes in length of days and nights
  7. 22. Detachment of leaves, flowers, and fruits
  8. 23. Response to daily light/dark cycles
  9. 24. Plants growth in response to gravity
  10. 26. (NAA)Synthetic auxin used to promote root formation on stem and leaf cuttings
  11. 27. Response of a plant to grow either away or towards a light source.
  12. 29. Synthetic hormone used to help ripen fruits by breaking down into ethylene gas
  13. 31. Rapid elongation of stems during spring
  14. 32. Flowers when days are short/nights are long
Down
  1. 1. Flowers regardless of day length
  2. 2. Ripens fruits
  3. 3. Plants that only live for two years and produce flowers/seeds in second year
  4. 4. Hormones involved in plant-cell elongation, shoot and bud growth, and rooting
  5. 6. A bluish, light-sensitive pigment that monitors changes in day length
  6. 7. Movement in response to a stimulus but is independent of the location of the stimulus
  7. 8. Chemical messengers that affect a plant's ability to respond to the environment
  8. 9. Hormones stimulating or inhibiting plant growth
  9. 14. Mixture of 2,4-D and another auxin used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War
  10. 15. Plant's growth response to touching a solid object
  11. 16. Nastic movement in response to touching a plant
  12. 17. When plants have a specific requirement for darkness length
  13. 18. (IAA)Natural auxin that stimulates development of fleshy fruit
  14. 19. Occurs when nights become longer and plants no longer produces chlorophyll
  15. 21. Inhibition of lateral buds due to the presence of a shoot tip nearby
  16. 25. Also known as heliotropism; The motion of leaves or follows following the sun's movement across the sky
  17. 28. Response of a plant to grow either away or towards an environmental stimulus
  18. 30. Plant growth in response to a chemical
  19. 33. (ABA) Inhibits other hormones (like IAA) and helps to keep plant in dormancy