May 2004
Plant Science test today!
Begin photosynthesis?
There will be a test on Plant Science next time. Study the following:
a) Be able to draw and leabel all plant structures (roots, stems, leaves, & flowers)
b) Know the function of all plant structures and cells.
c) Translocation- How it works & its importance.
d) Transpiration- How it works & its importance.
e) Germination
f) Water Potential (+ & - pressures)
g) Xerophyte modifications
h) Hydrophyte modifications
Seed Germination Notes
Plant Hormones Notes
PASS C Plant Technology Research & Writeup- Tue Friday Feb 23.
1) Lab procedure 32.3. Each group will be responsible for 2 tests run for about 20 minutes.
2) Answer questions 1-3 on page 338.
3) Notes on xerophytes & hydrophytes.
4) Notes on flowers.
5) If time, finish lab procedures 32.1 & 32.2! People who were absent need to do these for credit!
1) Review for & take plant anatomy quiz.
2) Turn in lab exercise 31!
3) Notes on Transpiration & Translocation.
4) Review Transpiration & Translocation on your CD ROM.
Click Plants- Insert CD #2, Then study the topics underTransport & Nutrition- Do self quiz.
5) Exercise 32in lab books.
a) Read pages 333-336.
b) Perform Procedure 32.1 using the containers of celery in food coloring.
c) Answer Question 1 a & b.
d) Perform Procedure 32.2 using the wandering jew leaf (instead of the Kalanchoe leaf) & stripping epidermal cells off of a daffodil leaf (instead of the Zea mays leaf).
e) Answer Questions 2 a-f & 3 a-c.
f) Read Procedure 32.3 as homework. We'll do the lab next time.
Group IV Project Meet in room 51 at 7:30 am ready to work with your groups!
1) Remember Group IV meets at 7:30 am on Wednesday......Room 51. Be ready to go.
2) Quiz next time we are in class. Identify plant parts and what their function is. The review is here!.........Plant structure review.
2) Leaf Diagram & Notes
3) Draw the diagram of the internal leaf structure (See slides on back table.) Label parts seen.
Answer Question 14 a-d & g. (Omit 14e & f.)
4) Finish all other parts of the lab not completed.
5) Complete Exercise 31 by answering questions questions 1-6 on page 331 of the lab book. Many of the answers can be found within the reading of Exercise 31.
1) Group IV Designs Due: MAke sure your team's procedure & materials list has been handed to either Mr. Slichter, Mr. Scannell, or Mrs. Long.
2) Stems (internal & external anatomy & function)
3) Finish root lab (see Tuesday Jan. 30 below!)
4) Stem lab
a) Begin Exercise 31 with the following on page 322 of your lab book.
Read "External Features of Mature Woody Stem" on page 322.
Examine and draw dormant twig. Label the terminal bud, bud scales, leaf scars, nodes & internodes, lenticel, and terminal bud scale scar (& other bud scale scars if seen).
b) Read Primary Tissues of Stems on page 323.
Instead of using the sunflower slide, use the slide labeled monocot & dicot stem. View under low to medium power, the dicot stem (use your diagram to tell the difference between the 2 stem types!).
Answer Question 7 1-d.
c) Read Secondary Growth of Stems on page 325.
Answer Question 9.
Procedure 31.3: Rather than looking at three Tilia stems, view a young alder woody stem and a wider pine stem. (steps 1-3......draw both wood cross-sections on your paper and label parts seen.)
Answer Question 10 a & b.
Do not do steps 4 & 5 of Procedure 31.3 !
Read about bark on pages 326-327. Don't answer questions 12 or 13.
Review stems and roots on the internet.
a) Read pp 317-322 (Do this at home.)
b) Observe live plants and their tap or fibrous roots.
Draw a plant with fibrous roots.
Draw a plant with a tap root.
Question 1 a-d,
c) Examine radish seedling root- draw and label any parts seen.
d) Examine a slide of a potato root with root hairs. Draw and label any parts seen.
Question 2 a & b, 3 a-c
e) Procedure 31.1 (Do only parts 1 & 3.)
Question 4 a & b.
f) Procedure 31.2 (Do only parts 1 & 2.).
Question 5 a-c.
g) View a slide of an Allium (onion) longsection.
Draw & label root cap, meristem region, region of growth, and region of elongation (if present).