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