BIOC40H3 Lecture Notes - Cotyledon, Chloroplast, Parenchyma
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Plant physiology is the discipline of botany concerned with the functioning, (or physiology) (cid:173) related fields include plant morphology, plant ecology, phytochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Spectacular diversity of size (1 cm 100+ m) Large diversity of morphology (form and shape) Plant physiologists study model organisms (arabidposis short generation times and small genome +) These models are useful because all plants, regardless of their specific adaptations, carry out basically the same processes and are based on the same architectural plan. The vegetative plant body has three main organs: leaf for photosynthesis, stem for support, root anchorage and absorption of water and minerals. Leaves are attached at the stem at nodes and the region between the two nodes is called the internode. The stem with leaves is called the shoot. The growing tip with localized regions of ongoing cell division is called the shoot apical meristem sam *
