Plant Responses

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