PLANTBI 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meristem, Thylakoid, Dicotyledon
6 Aug 2018
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Making food from plants impacts at least 4 areas that concern the future of us/our planet . name them (see lecture 1) Pollution of air due to overuse of machinery. Overuse of antibiotics to grow meat raised on grains. What you eat determines whether your body is healthy. Medicine: 50% of commercial meds are based on a plant compound. Mental health improves if you spend more time outside in nature . Embryos (cotyledons) either make one leaf--monocots or two leaves--dicots. Petals: multipliers of 3--m, multipliers of 4 or 5--d. Roots: fibrous (no primary roots) --m, tap-root (primary roots) --d. Meristem contains undifferentiated cells that will produce new organs. The meristem is located at the root/shoot tips. He planted a tree in a container with 200 lbs of soil. 5 years later, he weighed the soiled again and it became 199 lbs. It suggests that plant does not eat soil in order to grow.
