Plant twist and shout

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Across
  1. 3. the kind of pump that lowers pH outside the plasma membrane
  2. 5. color of light that controls plant elongation
  3. 8. organism who lays its eggs inside another organism, but is free-living as a adult
  4. 11. tiny starchy grains in a plant's cells that tell it which way is down
  5. 16. Auxin pools on the side of the shoot _____ from light.
  6. 20. a drink made of seeds, high in Dr. Durrett's favorite secondary plant compound
  7. 21. (2 words) hypothesis that microfibrils elongate and allow the cell to expand when H+ is pumped out of the plasma membrane
  8. 22. "wounding" signal that tells a plant to ramp up production of secondary compounds
  9. 23. what happens when a deer eats the tip of a willow twig
  10. 24. Plant secondary compounds can attack an insect's central ________ system.
  11. 25. why tendrils recognize and wrap around a trellis
  12. 27. when a leaf gets old
  13. 29. (2 words) color of light that tells flowers NOT to bloom
  14. 30. resistance acquired throughout the whole plant to ward off further infection
Down
  1. 1. (2 words) plants like my Christmas cactus that flower in winter
  2. 2. chemical that invokes cellular activity
  3. 4. produced in shoot and travels toward root
  4. 6. the "on" switch for plant germination
  5. 7. the reason you don't put the flower vase next to the fruit bowl
  6. 9. the zone between leaf and stem where the leaf will detach
  7. 10. the "it's too dry" signal that closes down stomata
  8. 12. response to pathogens that kills off infected plant tissue
  9. 13. a plant defense compound that humans like to absorb through our lungs
  10. 14. the reason that shoots grow upward, even in the dark
  11. 15. color of light that tells seeds to germinate
  12. 17. predatory group of insects with highly specific "target" organisms; can also form galls
  13. 18. conformation of phytochrome AFTER absorbing far red light
  14. 19. (2 words) plants like zinnias that flower in summer
  15. 26. what's needed for a chemical signal to activate a target cell
  16. 28. conformation of phytochrome that absorbs far red light