BIOLOGY 204
                                  VEGETATIVE STRUCTURES

 
Biology 204:  VEGETATIVE MORPHOLOGY & ANATOMY

Cells & Tissues            LAB 1

Leaf  characters       download LAB 2

Typical mesophyte leaf: 

Modifications:

Applications/Research News: 

Stems: anatomy and morphology       download lab 3                

Slides for lab:

Roots  & WOOD      lab 4


 

 

                                    


 

Test1 REVIEW -
  • Be prepared to recognize slides and gross specimens and their parts as specified in the lab instructions. 
    • Basically, you should know whether each organ is a root or a stem or a leaf; and you should be able to label all the cells, tissues, regions, areas, tissue systems, parts. 
    • You should be able to describe the functions of all these structures.
    • You must be able to explain how each structure develops from its origins in a meristem.  This is trickier when you get to secondary growth (wood).
    • You must be able to use your manual (RAB) quickly in deciding which technical terms for shape, size, arrangement, texture, duration, etc., apply to gross specimens.
    • You should know whether any organ (microscopic or gross) is a monocot or a dicot (for wood, whether it's a gymnosperm) and whether it has special adaptations for special functions or special habitats--hydrophytes, shade leaves, succulence, storage stems, bulbs, rhizomes, etc. etc. 
  • If you really know all of the above, you should be able to USE your knowledge in some practical applications beyond RAB ID's, like what horticulturists and farmers should worry about in pruning and transplanting, or how to take care of a xerophytic potted plant, or why it matters how your lumber or firewood is cut or what tree it came from, and what will happen if you nail your fence to a tree.
  • Review help   See 
  • Want to look at the test from 2002?   the test from 2001?  
  • Download a  sample test  from another year.  Some of the questions are about sex, which is on another later test this year.  Here are the answers to its multiple choice questions:
    1. [d] 2. [e] 3. [b] 4. [a] 5. [c]                 6. [b] 7. [c] 8. [b] 9. [b] 10. [c]
    11. [a] 12. [b] 13. [d] 14. [b] 15. [a]
    16. [b] 17. [b] 18. [c] 19. [b] (which is in the bark, but the outer bark comes from cork cambium)
    20. [c] 21. [d] 22. [a] 23. [b]    
    16. [c] 17. [d] 18. [b] 19. [a]            20. [b] 21. [b] 22. [d] 23. [c] 24. [b] 25. [d]
 

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