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Legend: Three Complete Chemical Structures
Keywords: chemical structures

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Legend: The temperate deciduous forest is characterized by numerous geophytes, few epiphytes, and only two or three layers of vegetation
Keywords: biomes, ecology, geophytes, epiphytes, forest layers, temperate deciduous forest, eastern hardwood forest

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Legend: "General Sherman", Sequoiadendron giganteum (Taxodiaceae:big trees), in Sequoia National Park is the largest single living creature on the face of the earth
Keywords: gymnosperms, big trees, ecology, biomes, mountain forest, coniferous forest, boreal forest, vegetation, secondary growth

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Legend: Pinus ponderosa (Pinaceae:yellow pine) is often dominant at the lower elevations of the mountain forest biome in the western United States
Keywords: biomes, gymnosperms, mountain forest, coniferous forest, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: Piney woods, a mixed pine-hardwood forest seen here in Arkansas' Ouachita Mountains, extends south and east from east Texas to Florida
Keywords: biomes, piney woods, mixed pine-hardwood forest, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: Deciduous thorn forest or scrub like this in Sinaloa, Mexico, often develops in regions of limited seasonal rainfall and no frost
Keywords: biomes, thorn scrub, thorn forest, deciduous, vegetation, ecology, frost, xerophytes, thorns

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Legend: Sequoia sempervirens (Taxodiaceae:coast redwoods) can stump sprout, perhaps living continuously as clones for tens of thousands of years
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, redwood forest, boreal forest, cloning, stumpsprouting, secondary growth, ecology, gymnosperms

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Legend: Trees in this tropical deciduous forest in Guerrero, Mexico, lose their leaves in response to a dry season
Keywords: biomes, tropical deciduous forest, ecology, dry season, vegetation

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Legend: Montane coniferous forest is the climax community in this glaciated valley in the northern Cascade Mountains of Washington
Keywords: biomes, mountain forest, coniferous forest, ecology, vegetation, succession

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Legend: The tropical rain forest is characterized by several vegetation layers and numerous epiphytes and lianas
Keywords: biomes, tropical rain forest, epiphytes, lianas, woody vines, layering, ecology vegetation

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Legend: This mixed pine-oak woodland covers much of California's Coast Ranges, and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, ecology, foothill woodland, ecology

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Legend: These massive Celtis (Ulmaceae) trees are emergents from the canopy of this tropical rain forest in Ghana, Africa
Keywords: biomes, tropical rain forest, canopy, emergents, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: Late spring at Missouri Botanical Garden's Shaw Arboretum experimental prairie, a small restored reminder of the almost extinct tall grass prairie
Keywords: biomes, conservation, tall grass prairie, ecology, grasslands, vegetation

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Legend: Pinyon-juniper woodlands form a transition between sagebrush scrub and ponderosa pine in many areas of the western United States
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, woodland, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, ecology

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Legend: In California, foothill woodland often forms a transition between ponderosa pine forest in the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley grasslands
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, ecology, grasslands, mountain forest, conifer forest, foothill woodland

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Legend: Creosote bush scrub covers large areas of arid land in southeastern California and adjacent Arizona
Keywords: biomes, ecology, vegetation, creosote bush scrub, hot desert, cloning, vegetative reproduction

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Legend: Tropical rain forests usually produce several layers of trees and shrubs and are marked by a high diversity of species
Keywords: biomes, ecology, vegetation, tropical rain forest, layering, diversity

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Legend: Atomic Structures of Six Atoms Commonly Found in Organic Molecules
Keywords: organic molecule atoms

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Legend: Ionic Bonding in Table Salt, NaCl
Keywords: ionic bonding

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Legend: Covalently Bonded Molecules Share Electrons
Keywords: covalent bonds

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Legend: Water Molecules
Keywords: water molecules

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Legend: Carbohydrates
Keywords: carbohydrates

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Legend: Synthesis and Hydrolysis of Sucrose
Keywords: sucrose, synthesis, hydrolysis

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Legend: Alpha-glucose and Beta-glucose, Plus Primary Structures of Amylose and Cellulose
Keywords: alpha-glucose, beta-glucose, amylose, cellulose

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Legend: Amino Acids (1)
Keywords: amino acids

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Legend: Amino Acids (2)
Keywords: amino acids

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Legend: Protein Structure
Keywords: protein structure

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Legend: Lipids
Keywords: lipids

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Legend: DNA Molecule
Keywords: DNA molecule

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Legend: Arrangement of Fibrils, Microfibrils, and Cellulose in Cell Walls
Keywords: fibrils, microfibrils, cellulose, cell wall

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Legend: Amylose and Amylopectin
Keywords: amylose, amylopectin

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Legend: Peptide Synthesis
Keywords: peptide

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Legend: Structures of Amino Acids in Proteins-Nonpolar
Keywords: amino acids, protein

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Legend: Structures of Amino Acids in Proteins-Polar
Keywords: amino acids, protein

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Legend: Structures of Amino Acids in Proteins-Electrically Charged
Keywords: amino acids, protein

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Legend: Structures of a Protein
Keywords: protein

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Legend: Interconnections Among Major Components of Primary Cell Walls
Keywords: cell walls

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Legend: Structure of DNA-Nucleotide Monomer
Keywords: DNA, nucleotide monomer

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Legend: Structure of DNA-Covalent Bonds and DNA Strand
Keywords: DNA, covalent bonds

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Legend: Structure of a Fat
Keywords: fat

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Legend: Structure of a Phospholipid
Keywords: phospholipid

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Legend: Structures of Three Alkaloids
Keywords: alkaloids

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Legend: Structures of Three Terpenoids
Keywords: terpenoids

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Legend: Structures of Four Phenolics
Keywords: phenolics

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Legend: Models of Orbitals

Keyword: Orbitals

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Legend: Isotopes of Oxygen

Keyword: Oxygen isotopes

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Legend: Models of Oxygen, Water, and Hydrogen

Keyword: Molecules

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Legend: A Covalent Bond Between Two Oxygen Atoms

Keyword: Covalent bond

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Legend: Energy Levels of Electrons

Keyword: electrons

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Legend: Glucose and Fructose Molecules

Keyword: glucose, fructose molecules

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Legend: Fat Molecule

Keyword: fat molecule

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Legend: Amino Acid Glycine

Keyword: amino acid glycine

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Legend: The Four Levels of Protein Structure

Keyword: protein

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Legend: How an Enzyme Facilitates a Reaction
Keyword: enzyme

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Legend: Clockwise from upper right: cassava (Manihot esculenta), taro root (Colocasia esculenta), and bananas (Musa sp.). Roadside wares in West Africa.
Keywords: food, energy, starch, carbohydrates, roots, staples

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Legend: Starch grains in Solanum tuberosum (potato) tuber cells
Keywords: starch, energy, carbohydrates, tuber, food crop

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Legend: Left: Conium maculatum (poison hemlock). Right: Cicuta spp. (water hemlock).
Keywords: coniine, cicutoxin, poisonous plant, alkaloid, alcohol

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Legend: Raphanus sativus (Brassicaceae:wild radish)
Keywords: sinigrin, crucifer, mustard oil, glycosides, food crop

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Legend: Lycopersicon esculentum [=Solanum lycopersicum] (Solanaceae: tomato)
Keywords: terpenes, carotenoids, lycopene, berry, tomatine, alkaloids, food crop

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Legend: Salix nigra (Salicaceae:willow) along a bayou in northwestern Louisiana
Keywords: salicylic acid, aspirin, phenolics, medicinal plant

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Legend: Eucalyptus spp. (Myrtaceae)
Keywords: eucalyptol, menthol, terpenoids, medicinal plant

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Legend: Nepeta cataria (Lamiaceae: catnip)
Keywords: nepetalactone, terpenoids, mint

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Legend: Taxus brevifolia (Taxaceae:pacific yew). Branch with red arils cupping the ovules
Keywords: gymnosperm, ovule, aril, taxol, terpenoid, taxine, alkaloid, cancer, medicinal plant

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Legend: Glycine max (Fabaceae:soybean)
Keywords: food crop, protein, nitrogen fixation, oil

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Legend: Quercus lobata (Fagaceae: valley oak: Oak savannah near Santa Inez, California
Keywords: tannins, phenolics, savannah

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Legend: Juglans major (Juglandaceae:Arizona walnut)
Keywords: pinnately compound leaves, catkins, phenolics, gallic acid

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Legend: Diagram of a Leaf Showing Cellularity
Keywords: leaf, cellularity

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Legend: Relative Sizes of Cells and Cellular Parts
Keywords: relative size, cells

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Legend: Biological Measurements
Keywords: biological measurements

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Legend: Magnification of Kidney Bean-5x
Keywords: magnification

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Legend: Comparison of Light Microscopes and Transmission Electron Microscopes
Keywords: microscopes

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Legend: Interpretation of Structures in a Micrograph of Freeze-Fractured Cell
Keywords: freeze-fractured cell

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Legend: Surface-to-volume Ratio
Keywords: surface-to-volume ratio

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Legend: Three Kinds of Cytoskeletal Filaments
Keywords: cytoskeletal filaments

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Legend: Drawing of a Primary Cell Wall-Plasmodesmata
Keywords: cell wall, plasmodesmata

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Legend: Nuclear Envelope
Keywords: nuclear envelope

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Legend: Ribosomes Play a Central Role in Protein Synthesis
Keywords: ribosomes, protein synthesis

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Legend: Three-dimensional Endoplasmic Reticulum
Keywords: endoplasmic reticulum

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Legend: Three-dimensional Representation of a Dictyosome (Golgi Body)
Keywords: dictyosome, golgi body

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Legend: Vacuole-Schematic Diagram of Cell Growth
Keywords: vacuole

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Legend: Three-dimensional Model of Chloroplast Membranes
Keywords: chloroplast

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Legend: Three-dimensional Model of a Mitochondrion
Keywords: mitochondrion

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Legend: Model of Cellular Invasion
Keywords: cellular invasion

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Legend: Model of a Flagellum
Keywords: flagellum

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Legend: Equivalency of Plant Organization According to the Cell Theory
Keywords: plant organization, cell theory

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Legend: Equivalency of Plant Organization According to the Organismal Theory
Keywords: plant organization, organismal theory

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Legend: A Leaf Cell Diagrammed
Keyword: leaf cell

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Legend: A Leaf Cell Diagrammed
Keyword: leaf cell

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Legend: Small Portion of a Plasma Membrane
Keyword: plasma membrane

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Legend: A Mitochondrion
Keyword: mitochondrion

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Legend: Thylakoids

Keyword: thylakoid

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Legend: Parts of a Chromosome

Keyword: chromosome

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Legend: Trachelomonas sp. (Euglenophyta)
Keywords: single-celled organism, algae

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Legend: Jute fibers (burlap) come from Corcorus species in the Tiliaceae or linden family
Keywords: sclerenchyma, fibers, jute, burlap

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Legend: Artifical Membrane Consisting of Phospholipids
Keywords: phospholipids

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Legend: Differential Permeability of a Phospholipid Bilayer
Keywords: differential permeability, phospholipids

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Legend: Fluid Mosaic Model of the Plasma Membrane
Keywords: plasma membrane

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Legend: Fluid Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure
Keywords: membrane

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Legend: Osmosis
Keywords: osmosis

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Legend: Osmosis
Keywords: osmosis

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Legend: Osmosis in Plant Cells
Keywords: osmosis

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Legend: Osmotic Pressure
Keywords: osmotic pressure

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Legend: Flaccid and Turgid Cells
Keywords: flaccid turgid cells

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Legend: Facilitated Diffusion
Keywords: facilitated diffusion

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Legend: Cotransport Across Membranes
Keywords: cotransport

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Legend: Active Transport
Keywords: active transport

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Legend: Exocytosis
Keywords: exocytosis

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Legend: Barley-Alpha-amylase Synthesis
Keywords: alpha-amylase synthesis

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Legend: Membrane Potentials of Different Membranes in a Leaf Cell
Keywords: potentials

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Legend: The pH of Different Compartments in a Leaf Cell
Keywords: pH

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Legend: Mitochondrial Structure
Keywords: mitochondrial structure

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Legend: Membranes of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria Use Energy Stored in a Proton Gradient
Keywords: chloroplasts, mitochondria

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Legend: Cell Signals
Keywords: cell signals, auxin, polysaccharides

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Legend: Auxin Can Induce and Amplify Proton Pumping
Keywords: auxin

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Legend: Simple Diffusion

Keyword: diffusion

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Legend: A Simple Osmometer

Keyword: osmometer

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Legend: Turgor Pressure in a Cell

Keyword: cell turgor

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Legend: Pathway of Water Through a Plant

Keyword: water pathway

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Legend: Capillarity in Narrow Tubes

Keyword: capillarity

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Legend: The Pressure-flow Hypothesis

Keyword: pressure-flow

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Legend: How a Stoma Opens and Closes

Keyword: stoma

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Legend: Elements Essential as Building Blocks for Compounds Synthesized by Plants

Keyword: elements

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Legend: Stigma and part of the style of a lily to show germinating pollen and pollen tubes
Keywords: pollen, pollination, stigma, pollen tubes, angiosperm reproduction

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Legend: Pluchea sericea (Asteraceae:arrow weed). Alkali flat in Death Valley called the "Devils Cornfield".
Keywords: alkali, sierozem, calcification, salt accumulation, soils

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Legend: Energy
Keywords: energy

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Legend: Photosynthesis
Keywords: photosynthesis

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Legend: Plants are Producers
Keywords: plant energy

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Legend: Cellular Metabolism
Keywords: cellular metabolism

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Legend: ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the Energy Currency of Cells
Keywords: ATP

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Legend: Energy of Activation
Keywords: energy

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Legend: Formation of ATP-Noncyclic Photophosphorylation
Keywords: noncyclic photophosphorylation

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Legend: Calvin Cycle
Keywords: calvin cycle

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Legend: Glycolysis
Keywords: glycolysis

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Legend: Enzymes Speed the Rate of Spontaneous Reactions
Keywords: enzymes

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Legend: Photosynthesis and Respiration
Keywords: photosynthesis, respiration

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Legend: A Summary of Respiration (1)

Keyword: respiration

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Legend: A Summary of Respiration (2)

Keyword: respiration

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Legend: Lysichitum americanum (Araceae:skunkcabbage) in British Columbia, Canada
Keywords: heat production, aroid, spathe, spadix, pollination, energy, respiration, oxidation

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Legend: Saccharum officinarum (Poaceae:sugar cane) next to a home in Toucountouna, Benin
Keywords: energy, sugar, carbohydrate, grass, food crop

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Legend: Triticum spp. (Poaceae:wheat)
Keywords: energy, food crop, starch, grass, wheat

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Legend: Krebs Cycle
Keywords: respiration, Krebs cycle

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Legend: Krebs Cycle
Keywords: Krebs cycle

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Legend: Substrate-level Phosphorylation
Keywords: phosphorylation

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Legend: Ten Steps of Glycolysis-Steps 1-5
Keywords: glycolysis

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Legend: Ten Steps of Glycolysis-Steps 6-10
Keywords: glycolysis

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Legend: Electron Transport System
Keywords: electron transport system

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Legend: Conversion of Pyruvic Acid to Acetyl-CoA
Keywords: pyruvic acid, acetyl-CoA

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Legend: The Krebs Cycle
Keywords: Krebs cycle

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Legend: Reversible Conversions Between Ubiquinone and Ubiquinol
Keywords: ubiquinone, ubiquinol

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Legend: Sequence of Steps in the Electron Transport Chain
Keywords: electron transport chain

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Legend: Pathway for Energy Transfer from Cytosolic NADH to Mitochondrial NADH
Keywords: cytosol NADH mitochondrial NADH

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Legend: First Step of the Electron Transport Chain
Keywords: electron transport chain

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Legend: Cytochrome c, Showing the Iron-containing Heme Group
Keywords: cytochrome c

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Legend: Free-energy Scale of the Electron Transport Chain
Keywords: electron transport chain

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Legend: ATP Synthase Complex in the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane
Keywords: ATP synthase

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Legend: Anaerobic Respiration
Keywords: anaerobic respiration

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Legend: Major Intermediates of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
Keywords: pentose phospate pathway

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Legend: Respiration of Lipids
Keywords: lipid respiration

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Legend: Electron Transport Chain for Cyanide-resistant Respiration
Keywords: electron transport chain

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Legend: 1 Allium spp. (Alliaceae: onions and garlics).
Keywords: fructose polymers, energy, sugar, respiration

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Legend: Arisaema triphylla (Araceae:jack-in-the-pulpit)
Keywords: heat production, aroid, spathe, spadix, pollination, energy, respiration, oxidation

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Legend: T. W. Engelmann's Experiment
Keywords: Engelmann

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Legend: Properties of Light
Keywords: light

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Legend: Chlorophyll a, the Primary Pigment of Photosynthesis
Keywords: chlorophyll a

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Legend: Absorption of Light by Chlorophylls a and b
Keywords: light absorbtion, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b

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Legend: Absorption Spectrum of Chlorophyll a
Keywords: absorption spectrum, chlorophyll a

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Legend: Carotenoids-Beta-carotene and Lycopene
Keywords: carotenoids, beta-carotene, lycopene

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Legend: Xanthophyll
Keywords: xanthophyll

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Legend: Phycocyanin and Phycoerythrin
Keywords: phycocyanin, phycoerythrin

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Legend: Plants Photosynthesis Occurs in Chloroplasts
Keywords: plant photosynthesis

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Legend: Light-harvesting System in Chloroplasts
Keywords: chloroplasts, light-harvesting

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Legend: Energy in Energized Electrons of Chlorophyll
Keywords: chlorophyll, energy

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Legend: ght-driven Transport of Electrons During Photosynthesis
Keywords: photosynthesis

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Legend: Photosynthesis
Keywords: photosynthesis

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Legend: clic Flow of Electrons
Keywords: electrons cyclic flow

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Legend: Noncylic Flow of Electrons
Keywords: electrons noncyclic flow

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Legend: Photosystems I and II are Linked in Series in the Thylakoid Membrane
Keywords: photosystems

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Legend: Calvin's Experiments and Results
Keywords: Calvin's experiments

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Legend: A Summary of Photosynthesis
Keywords: photosynthesis

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Legend: Absorption Spectrum of Bacteriorhodopsin and Chlorophyll a
Keywords: absorption spectrum

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Legend: C4 Photosynthesis
Keywords: C4 photosynthesis

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Legend: C3 and C4 Photosynthesis
Keywords: C3 and C4 photosynthesis

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Legend: Photosynthesis in CAM Plants
Keywords: photosynthesis CAM plants

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Legend: Visible Light Passing Through a Prism

Keyword: visible light

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Legend: How Temperature and Light Interact to Affect Photosynthesis

Keyword: photosynthesis

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Legend: The Structure of a Molecule of Chlorophyll a

Keyword: chorophyll a

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Legend: A Simple Summary of Photosynthetic Reactions

Keyword: photosynthesis

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Legend: Engelmann's Experiment

Keyword: Engelmann

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Legend: The Absorption Spectra of Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b and a Carotenoid

Keyword: absorption spectra

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Legend: The Light Reactions of Photosynthesis

Keyword: photosynthesis

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Legend: A Photosystem II Model

Keyword: photosystem II

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Legend: The Calvin Cycle

Keyword: Calvin cycle

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Legend: An Illustration of the C4 Photosynthesis Pathway

Keyword: C4 photosynthesis

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Legend: Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) Photosynthesis

Keyword: crassulacean acid metabolism

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Legend: Zea mays (Poaceae: corn)
Keywords: energy, photosynthesis, grass, food crop

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Legend: Albino corn (genotype lw1:lw1) lacks the ability to produce chlorophyll
Keywords: genetics, mutations, photosynthesis, achlorophyllous plant

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Legend: Genus
Keywords: genus

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Legend: Major Ranks in the Taxonomic Hierarchy
Keywords: taxonomic heirarchy

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Legend: A Pea Flower (longitudinal section)
Keywords: flower

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Legend: Artifical Hybridization in Pea Flowers
Keywords: artificial hybridization

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Legend: Characteristics of the Garden Pea Studied by Mendel
Keywords: Mendel garden pea study

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Legend: Inheritance Pattern of One of Mendel's Crosses
Keywords: inheritance patterns, Mendel

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Legend: Punnett Square Showing the Inheritance of Phenotypes and Underlying Genotypes in Mendel's Cross With Flower Color
Keywords: Punnett square

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Legend: Incomplete Dominance
Keywords: dominance

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Legend: Inheritance in the Garden Pea
Keywords: inheritance, Punnett square

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Legend: Meiosis
Keywords: meiosis

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Legend: Evidence for Bacterial Transformation
Keywords: bacterial transformation

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Legend: Evidence for the Role of DNA in Heredity
Keywords: DNA, heredity

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Legend: Frequency Distribution of Corolla Lengths in Nicotiana longiflora
Keywords: frequency distribution, corolla length

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Legend: Pleiotropic Effects of Two Alleles
Keywords: pleiotropic effects

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Legend: A Dihybrid Experiment
Keywords: dihybrid experiment

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Legend: A Cross Between a Tall Variety and a Dwarf Variety of Peas

Keyword: cross

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Legend: Absence of Dominance

Keyword: absence of dominance

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Legend: A Monohybrid Cross

Keyword: monohybrid cross

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Legend: A Dihybrid Cross (1)

Keyword: dihybrid cross

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Legend: A Dihybrid Cross (2)

Keyword: dihybrid

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Legend: Mankind has developed hundreds of varieties of beans and peas
Keywords: legume, peas, beans, food crop, genetics, artificial selection

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Legend: Nearly all cultivated peppers are varieties of only two species, Capsicum frutescens and C. annuum
Keywords: genetics, artificial selection, capsaicin, red pepper, bell pepper, tobasco, pimentos, chili, food crop

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Legend: Color in corn kernels follows patterns of Mendelian genetics
Keywords: genetics, dominant-recessive, monohybrid cross, Indian corn, Mendelian genetics

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Legend: In carnations, pink is intermediate between red and white, yielding a ratio of two pinks to one red and one white
Keywords: genetics, intermediate inheritance, carnations, Mendelian genetics, monohybrid cross

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Legend: Flower color in Lathyrus odoratus (Fabaceae:sweet pea) is linked to pollen shape
Keywords: genetics, linkage, flower color

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Legend: Corn produces two types of flowers: female flowers (left) are produced in ears and male flowers (right) are produced in tassels
Keywords: cytoplasmic male sterility, genetics, food crop, unisexual flowers, tassels, ears

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Legend: Transposable elements are illustrated by the color of some corn kernels
Keywords: genetics, transposable elements, corn

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Legend: A spontaneous mutation aparently occurred in the early development of this branch
Keywords: genetics, mutations

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Legend: Isozyme variation in several species of Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae:milkweeds)
Keywords: genetics, isozymes, enzyme, electrophoresis, allozymes

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Legend: A dominant-recessive cross between two heterozygous (Lw1:lw1) corn plants yields approximately a 3:1 ratio
Keywords: genetics, dominant-recessive, monohybrid cross, albino corn, mendelian genetics

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Legend: Main Steps Involved in Culturing Vegetative Cells and Regenerating a New Plant from Cell Culture
Keywords: culturing, regenerating cells

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Legend: Periods of the Cell Cycle
Keywords: cell cycle

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Legend: Diagrammatic Representation of the Double Helix of DNA
Keywords: DNA double helix

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Legend: Components of a Portion of a DNA Molecule
Keywords: DNA molecule

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Legend: Transcription
Keywords: transcription

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Legend: Summary of Protein Synthesis
Keywords: protein synthesis

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Legend: Recombinant DNA Technology
Keywords: recombinant DNA

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Legend: Diagrams of DNA
Keywords: DNA

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Legend: Diagrams of DNA
Keywords: DNA

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Legend: Semiconservative Replication
Keywords: semiconservative replication

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Legend: Incorporation of Heavy Nitrogen (15N) into DNA
Keywords: heavy nitrogen

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Legend: DNA Replication
Keywords: DNA replication

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Legend: Initiation and Expansion of a Replication Bubble for DNA Synthesis
Keywords: replication bubble, DNA synthesis

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Legend: DNA Topoisomerases
Keywords: DNA topoisomerases

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Legend: Replicon
Keywords: replicon

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Legend: Examples of Cot Curves
Keywords: Cot curves

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Legend: Mitosis and Cytokinesis
Keywords: mitosis, cytokinesis

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Legend: Metaphase Chromosome
Keywords: metaphase chromosome

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Legend: Forces That Move Chromosomes
Keywords: chromosomes

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Legend: Possible Patterns of Disassembly of Kinetochore-bound Microtubules
Keywords: kinetochore-bound microtubules

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Legend: A Cell Cycle

Keyword: cell cycle

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Legend: Structure of a DNA Molecule

Keyword: DNA molecule

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Legend: Pairing of Nucleotides in a Tiny Portion of a Strand of DNA

Keyword: nucleotides

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Legend: Replication (duplication) of DNA

Keyword: replication

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Legend: Development of a Clamp Connection

Keyword: clamp connection

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Legend: Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and interphase in Allium root tip cells
Keywords: mitosis, prophase, metaphase, interphase, anaphase, meristematic cells

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Legend: Stages of mitosis in Allium root tip cells
Keywords: mitosis, anaphase, prophase, metaphase, interphase, telophase, meristematic cells

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Legend: Strages of mitosis in Allium root tip cells
Keywords: anaphase, prophase, mitosis, meristematic cells

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Legend: Stages of mitosis in Allium root tip cells
Keywords: prophase, anaphase, telophase, interphase, mitosis, meristematic cells

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Legend: Insect gall on leaf of Fraxinus (Oleaceae:Ash)
Keywords: mitosis, insect galls, cytokinins

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Legend: Insect galls on stems of Quercus douglasii (Fagaceae:blue oak)
Keywords: mitosis, insect galls, cytokinin

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Legend: Reproductive Cycle of an Angiosperm
Keywords: angiosperm

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Legend: Alternation of Generations-Fern Life Cycle
Keywords: generations, life cycles

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Legend: Alternations of Generations-Pine Life Cycle
Keywords: generations, life cycles

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Legend: Alternation of Gnerations-Haploid and Diploid Phases
Keywords: generations, haploid, diploid

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Legend: Alternation of Generations in Plants
Keywords: alteration of generations

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Legend: Development of the Male Gametophyte
Keywords: gametophyte

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Legend: Development of the Lilium-type Female Gametophyte
Keywords: gametophyte

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Legend: Pollination and Fertilization
Keywords: pollination, fertilization

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Legend: Zygote
Keywords: zygote

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Legend: Prophase I
Keywords: prophase I

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Legend: Comparison of Early Prophase in Mitosis and Meiosis
Keywords: prophase, mitosis, meiosis

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Legend: Stages in Meiosis
Keywords: meisois

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Legend: Chromosome
Keywords: duplicated chromosome

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Legend: Mitosis in a Plant Cell
Keywords: mitosis

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Legend: Homologous Chromosomes Align During Phophase I
Keywords: prophase I

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Legend: Model of a Synaptonemal Complex
Keywords: synaptonemal complex

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Legend: Synapsed Chromosomes with an Inversion Loop
Keywords: synapsed chromosome, inversion loop

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Legend: Chiasmata in Prophase I
Keywords: chiasmata, prophase I

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Legend: Separation of Meiotic Chromosomes
Keywords: meiotic chromosomes

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Legend: Four Possible Orientations of Two Bivalents in Metaphase I
Keywords: bivalent, metaphase I

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Legend: Evidence for Crossing-over in Corn (Zea mays)
Keywords: crossing-over

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Legend: Segregation of Spore Colors in Bread Mold-With Recombination
Keywords: segregation, recombination

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Legend: Segregation of Spore Colors in Bread Mold-Without Recombination
Keywords: segregation, recombination

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Legend: Evidence for Gene Conversion in Bread Mold
Keywords: gene conversion

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Legend: Model for Gene Conversion
Keywords: gene conversion

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Legend: Synapsis
Keywords: synapsis

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Legend: Model of a Tandem Repeat
Keywords: tandem repeat

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Legend: Model of Gene Duplication
Keywords: gene duplication

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Legend: Distribution of rbcS Genes of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
Keywords: rbcS genes

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Legend: A Comparison of Mitosis and Meiosis-Prophase and Metaphase
Keyword: mitosis, meiosis

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Legend: A Comparison of Mitosis and Meiosis-Anaphase and Telophase
Keyword: mitosis, meiosis

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Legend: Homologous Chromosomes at Metaphase I of Meiosis
Keyword: metaphase I

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Legend: A Typical Life Cycle of Plants that Undergo Sexual Reproduction
Keyword: life cycle

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Legend: How a Protein is Synthesized
Keyword: protein synthesis

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Legend: Chromosomal Changes that Can Occur
Keyword: chromosomal change

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Legend: Reproduction on Diatoms
Keyword: diatoms

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Legend: A variety of pollen grains
Keywords: pollen, microgametophytes

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Legend: Pollen grains of Lilium (Liliaceae:lily)
Keywords: pollen, microgametophyte, generative cell, tube nucleus, exine

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Legend: Lilium anther, pollen in prophase of meiosis
Keywords: meiosis, pollen, prophase, anthers, microsporogenesis

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Legend: Lilium flower x.s., ovary and anthers
Keywords: meiosis, compound ovary, axile placentation, anthers, microsporogenesis

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Legend: Lilium anther locule, late prophase of meiosis
Keywords: meiosis, pollen, late prophase, microsporogenesis

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Legend: Lilium anther locule, first meiotic division
Keywords: meiosis, pollen, microsporogenesis, first division, meiosis I

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Legend: Lilium anther locule, second meiotic division
Keywords: meiosis, pollen, microsporogenesis, second division, meiosis II

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Legend: Lilium anther, pollen tetrads
Keywords: meiosis, pollen, microsporogenesis, tetrads

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Legend: Lilium ovule, third division
Keywords: ovule, integuments, micropyle, embryo sac, third division, nucellus

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Legend: Dehiscing anthers, shedding pollen
Keywords: pollen, allergic rhinitis, dehiscence, anthers

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Legend: Scanning electron micrograph of tricolpate pollen of Mallotus polyadenus (Euphorbiaceae)
Keywords: pollen, tricolpate, exine, microgametophyte

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Legend: Scanning electron micrograph of the exine sculpturing in Dalechampia scandens (Euphorbiaceae)
Keywords: pollen, exine, sculpturing, microgametophyte

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Legend: Diagrammatic Representation of Transcription
Keywords: transcription

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Legend: Steps in RNA Transcription
Keywords: RNA transcription

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Legend: Model of RNA Splicing by Intron
Keywords: RNA splicing, intron

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Legend: RNA Processing
Keywords: RNA processing

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Legend: Model of mRNA that is Exported From the Nucleus
Keywords: mRNA

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Legend: DNA-mRNA Binding Experiments
Keywords: DNA-mRNA experiments, introns

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Legend: The Structure of Transfer RNA
Keywords: transfer RNA

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Legend: Structure of a Eukaryotic Ribosome
Keywords: eukaryotic ribosome

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Legend: Synthesis of Aminoacyl-tRNA
Keywords: aminoacyl-tRNA

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Legend: Initiation of Protein Synthesis
Keywords: protein synthesis

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Legend: Steps in Elongation
Keywords: elongation

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Legend: Translation
Keywords: translation

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Legend: The Genetic Code for mRNA
Keywords: genetic code mRNA

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Legend: Intron-free and Intran-Containing Gene Structures
Keywords: intron gene structures

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Legend: Evolution of Interrupted Genes
Keywords: interrupted genes

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Legend: Triosephosphate Isomerase Enzyme
Keywords: triosephosphate isomerase enzyme

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Legend: Restriction Enzyme-EcoRI
Keywords: restriction enzyme

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Legend: Gene Cloning by Bacteria
Keywords: gene cloning

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Legend: Cloning of Three Foreign Genes by Each Type of Vector
Keywords: clones

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Legend: Steps for Making Complementary DNA
Keywords: complementary DNA

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Legend: Construction of a Yeast Artifical Chromosome (YAC) With Inserted Foreign DNA
Keywords: yeast artificial chromosome

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Legend: Colony Hybridization
Keywords: colony hybridization

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Legend: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (1)
Keywords: polymerase chain reaction

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Legend: The Polymerase Chain Reaction (2)
Keywords: polymerase chain reaction

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Legend: Inserting Foreign Genes by Using the Agrobacterium Ti Plasmid
Keywords: agrobacterium Ti plasmid

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Legend: Steps in Making Transgenic Plants
Keywords: transgenic plants

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Legend: How Recombinant Bacteria are Produced
Keyword: recombinant bacteria

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Legend: Tissues and Organs of a Herbaceous Plant
Keywords: herbaceous

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Legend: Three Kinds of Transitional Meristems in Plants
Keywords: transitional meristems

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Legend: Microfibrils and Cellular Shape
Keywords: microfibrils, cellular shape

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Legend: Plant Development and Propagation by Tissue Culture
Keywords: plant development and propagation

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Legend: Development of Environmentally Controlled Polarity in the Brown Alga Fucus
Keywords: polarity fucus

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Legend: Polarity of Plant Tissues
Keywords: polarity

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Legend: Stomatal Differentiation in Leaves
Keywords: stomatal differentiation

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Legend: Growing Plants Generate Electrical Currents
Keywords: electrical currents

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Legend: A Simple Graft
Keyword: grafting

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Legend: Coleus (Lamiaceae) shoot apex, l.s..
Keywords: opposite phyllotaxy, shoot apical meristem, tunica-corpus, primordia, procambium, procambial strands, protoderm, ground meristem

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Legend: Ananas comosus (Bromeliaceae:pineapple) fruit.
Keywords: multiple fruit, phyllotaxy, alternate or spiral, food crop

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Legend: Botrychium (Ophioglossales:grape fern) root apex, l.s.
Keywords: roots, quiescent zone, root cap, ferns, protostele, root apical meristem

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Legend: Ginkgo (Ginkgophyta) stem apex, l.s.
Keywords: shoot apical meristem, primordia, quiescent zone, tunica-corpus, gymnosperms

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Legend: Tilia (Tiliaceae:basswood) 1-year stem x.s.
Keywords: secondary growth, xylem, phloem, parenchyma rays, vascular cambium

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Legend: Tilia (Tiliaceae:basswood) 3-year stem x.s.
Keywords: secondary growth, xylem, phloem, parenchyma rays, vascular cambium, annual rings, pith, diffuse porous

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Legend: Coleus (Lamiaceae) shoot showing axillary growth after pruning
Keywords: axillary growth, auxin, apical dominance

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Legend: Wyethia (Asteraceae:mule's ears) flower head showing pattern of disk and ray flowers
Keywords: growth patterns, development, phyllotaxy, composite, ray flowers disk flowers, head, receptacular bracts, involucral bracts

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Legend: Phoradendron (scaceae:mistletoe) growing on oak
Keywords: modular growth, parasitism, haustoria, nutrition

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Legend: Cristated flowering apex of Celosia (Amaranthaceae: cock's comb)
Keywords: cristated stem, apical growth

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Legend: Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae:dutchman's pipe vine) stem apex, l.s.
Keywords: alternate phyllotaxy, primordia, shoot apical meristem, surface hairs, leaf traces

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Legend: Transpiration-Open and Closed Stoma
Keywords: transpiration, stoma

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Legend: Stomata of Cow Pea (Vigna sinensis), a Dicot
Keywords: stomata

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Legend: Water-conducting Cells of Xylem
Keyword: xylem

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Legend: Pits
Keyword: pits

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Legend: How Water Flow is Controlled in Adjacent Pairs of Bordered Pits
Keyword: bordered pits

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Legend: Longitudinal View of Part of the Phloem of a Black Locust Tree
Keyword: phloem

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Legend: A Stereoscopic View of a Portion of a Typical Leaf
Keyword: leaf

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Legend: A Typical Dicot Stoma
Keyword: dicot stoma

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Legend: Abscission Zone of a Leaf
Keyword: leaf abscission

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Legend: Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae:buttercup) root, x.s., showing storage parenchyma in cortex, x.s.
Keywords: root, cortex, ground tissue, starch grains, storage parenchyma, protostele, endodermis, tetrarch, exarch, differentiation

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Legend: Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae:dutchman's pipe vine) stem, x.s., showing wound response
Keywords: wounding response, ethylene, cork production

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Legend: Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) stem, x.s., showing collenchyma and sclerenchyma in the cortex
Keywords: sclerenchyma, collenchyma, cortex, epidermis

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Legend: Quercus (Fagaceae:oak) macerated wood showing vessel tube members, fibers, and tracheids
Keywords: macerated wood, fibers, tracheids, vessel tube members

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Legend: Hoya (Asclepiadaceae) stem, x.s., showing pith brachysclereids
Keywords: pith, brachysclereids, sclerenchyma

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Legend: Nerium (Apocynaceae:oleander) leaf, x.s. showing vascular bundles and stomatal crypt
Keywords: xerophyte, stomatal crypt, vascular bundle, phloem, xylem, sclerenchyma

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Legend: Orchid aerial root showing multiple epidermis (velamen)
Keywords: multiple epidermis, velamen, aerial root

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Legend: Peperomia (Piperaceae) leaf, x.s., showing multiple epidermis
Keywords: multiple epidermis, paleospecies, palaeoherb, evolution, angiosperm origins

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Legend: Ligustrum (Oleaceae:privet) leaf, x.s.
Keywords: palisade parenchyma, aerenchyma, spongy parenchyma, midvein, leaf vein, leaf epidermis

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Legend: Linum usitatissimum (Linaceae:flax) stem, x.s., showing fibers in cortex
Keywords: flax, linen, fibers, sclerenchyma, vascular cambium

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Legend: Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae:vanilla) photosynthetic aerial roots
Keywords: aerial roots, vanilla, velamen, multiple epidermis

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Legend: Dicot leaf epidermis, stomata with no subsidiary cells
Keywords: epidermis, epidermal cells, guard cells, growth pattern, polarity

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Legend: Sedum (Crassulaceae:stonecrop) leaf epidermis with subsidiary cells
Keywords: epidermis, epidermal cells, subsidiary cells, guard cells

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Legend: "Typical" monocot leaf epidermis
Keywords: epidermis, epidermal cells, guard cells, polarity, growth patterns

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Legend: Urtica dioica (Urticaceae:nettle) with stinging hairs
Keywords: stinging hairs, bracts, unisexual flowers

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Legend: Cnidoscolis (Euphorbiaceae:bull nettle) with stinging hairs and pollinators
Keywords: stinging hairs, beetle pollination, cantharophily, unisexual flowers

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Legend: Dionaea (Dionaeaceae:venus' fly trap) leaf, x.s., to show digestive glands
Keywords: digestive glands, carnivorous plants, modified leaves

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Legend: Drosera (Droseraceae:sundew) insectivorous leaves
Keywords: carnivorous plants, modified leaves, tacky glands

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Legend: Drosera (Droseraceae:sundew) leaf, x.s., to show stalked tacky gland and surface digestive gland
Keywords: digestive gland, stalked gland, carnivorous plant, modified leaves

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Legend: Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) stem, x.s. (left) and ls. (right) showing sieve tubes and sieve plates
Keywords: sieve tubes, sieve plugs, sieve plates, phloem, xylem, vessel tube members

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Legend: Medicago (Fabaceae:sweet clover) stem, x.s.
Keywords: collenchyma, vascular bundle, chlorenchyma, primary phloem, primary xylem

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae: pine) stem, l.s., showing sieve areas in the phloem
Keywords: sieve cells, sieve areas, gymnosperms, phloem

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Legend: Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) stem, x.s.
Keywords: sieve plates, phloem, xylem, companion cells, sieve tubes, vessel tube members

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Legend: Guttation in a tropical rain forest leaf
Keywords: guttation, hydathodes

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Legend: Fritillaria (Liliaceae:fritillary) flower showing nectaries and nectar storage
Keywords: nectar, nectaries, hummingbird pollination

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae: pine) young stem, x.s., with resin ducts
Keywords: resin duct, xylem, phloem, cortex, vascular cambium, gymnosperms

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Legend: Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) stem, l.s., with lacticifers
Keywords: lacticifers

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Legend: Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) stem, l.s., with prototxylem and metaxylem
Keywords: primary xylem, protoxylem, metaxylem, vessel tube members, pits

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Legend: Tilia (Tiliaceae:basswood) macerated wood with vessel tube member
Keywords: vessel tube member, scalariform pores, pits, tracheids, fibers

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Legend: Stems Consist of Nodes and Internodes
Keywords: stem nodes internodes

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Legend: Leaf Morphology
Keywords: leaf morphology

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Legend: Longitudinal Axis of a Plant
Keyword: plant meristems

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Legend: A Woody Twig
Keyword: twig

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Legend: Coleus Stem <
Keyword: stem

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Legend: Young Stem
Keyword: stem

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Legend: A Cell of the Vascular Cambium
Keyword: stem vascular cambium

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Legend: A Block of a Woody Dicot
Keyword: dicot

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Legend: Types of Specialized Stems
Keyword: stems

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Legend: Types of Leaves and Leaf Arrangements
Keyword: leaves

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Legend: Helianthus (Asteraceae:sunflower) stem, x.s. Keywords: primary stem, vascular bundles, pith, cortex, eustele, dicot

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Legend: Zea mays (Poaceae:corn) stem, x.s.
Keywords: atactostele, primary stem, monocot, vascular bundles

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Legend: Dracena (Liliaceae) stem, x.s., showing a vascular bundle
Keywords: vascular bundle, xylem, phloem, fiber cap, sclerenchyma, monocot

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Legend: Vitis (Vitaceae:grape) stem tendril
Keywords: stem tendril, vine

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Legend: Lonicera japonica (Caprifoliaceae: honeysuckle) searcher shoots
Keywords: searcher shoots, vine

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Legend: Larix (Pinaceae:larch) long shoot with fascicled short shoots
Keywords: gymnosperms, fascicles, long shoots, short shoots, deciduous conifer, lumber tree

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Legend: Platycereus (Cactaceae) cladodes
Keywords: cladodes, modified stems

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Legend: Opuntia (Cactaceae) young stem with caducous leaves still below areoles
Keywords: caducous leaves, areoles, spines, phyllotaxy, growth pattern

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Legend: Marah (Cucurbitaceae) with stem tendrils showing thigmotropic coiling
Keywords: thigmotropism, stem tendrils, vine, palmately-lobed leaves

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Legend: Aloe vera (Aloeaceae) leaves
Keywords: burn plant, monocot, succulent leaves, medicinal plant

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Legend: Prunus serotina (Rosaceae: wild black cherry) young stems with leaves
Keywords: alternate phyllotaxy, growth patterns, entire leaves, cyanogenic glycosides

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Legend: Coleus (Lamiaceae) leaves showing decussate phyllotaxy
Keywords: decussate phyllotaxy, growth patterns, opposite leaves, entire leaves, anthocyanins

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Legend: Fishhook cactus showing spiral phyllotaxy of the areoles
Keywords: spines, modified leaves, spiral phyllotaxy, areoles, succulent stem

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Legend: Lupinus (Fabaceae:lupine) palmately compound leaves
Keywords: palmately-compound leaves, legume

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Legend: Zanthoxyum (Rutaceae:tickle-tongue tree) pinnately compound leaves and paniculate inflorescence
Keywords: panicle, pinnately-compound leaves, calcium oxalate crystals

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Legend: Montia perfoliata (Portulacaceae:miner's lettuce) perfoliate leaves
Keywords: perfoliate leaves, betacyanins

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Legend: Tropaeoleum (Tropaeolaceae:garden nasturtium) peltate leaves
Keywords: peltate leaves

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Legend: Syringa (Oleaceae:lilac) leaf, x.s.
Keywords: aerenchyma, palisade parenchyma, spongy parenchyma, midvein, leaf vein, chlorenchyma

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Legend: Thermopsis (Fabaceae:false lupine) stipules, palmately trifoliate leaf, and axillary shoot
Keywords: stipules, palmately trifoliate leaf, axillary lshoot

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Legend: Acer (Aceraceae:maple) sun (above) and shade (below) leaves
Keywords: sun leaves, shade leaves, palisade parenchyma

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Legend: Dischidia (Asclepiadaceae) flower pot leaves
Keywords: flower pot leaves, modified leaves, adventitious roots, nutrition

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Legend: Cleared leaf with reticulate venation
Keywords: dicot leaf, reticulate venation

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Legend: Monocot leaf with C4 bundle sheath cells
Keywords: C4 bundle sheath cells, stomata, leaf veins, xylem, phloem

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Legend: Nerium (Apocynaceae:oleander) xerophytic leaf
Keywords: xerophytic leaf, stomatal crypts

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Legend: Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae:water lily) hydrophytic leaf
Keywords: hydrophytic leaf, aerenchyma, palisade parenchyma

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Legend: Eichornia (Pontederiaceae:water hyacinth) with petiolate bladders
Keywords: petiole bladders, hydrophytic leaf, modified leaves

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Legend: Dianthus (Caryophyllaceae:pink) vertical leaf with double palisade
Keywords: double palisade, vertical leaf, leaf modifications

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Legend: Eichornia (Pontederiaceae:water hyacinth) clogging a Louisiana waterway
Keywords: hydrophytic leaf, petiole bladders, modified leaves, water weed

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Legend: Vicia (Fabaceae:vetch) leaf tendrils
Keywords: leaf tendrils, leaf modifications, pinnately-compound leaf

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Legend: Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae) leaf with plantlets
Keywords: plantlets, leaf modifications, succulent leaves, CAM metabolism

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Legend: Costus (Costaceae) with spiral leaf pattern
Keywords: phyllotaxy, growth pattern

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Legend: Frithia (Crassulaceae) with window leaves
Keywords: window leaves, modified leaves, CAM metabolism

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Legend: Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae:honey locust) branch with stem thorns
Keywords: thorns, bipinnately compound leaves

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Legend: Bougainvillea (Nyctaginaceae) flowers surrounded by showy bracts
Keywords: bracts

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Legend: Dionaea (Dionaeaceae:venus' flytrap) leaves modified to capture insects
Keywords: carnivorous plants, modified leaves

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Legend: Emerging oak seedling with food-packed cotyledons
Keywords: dicot seedling, cotyledons, nutrition

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Legend: Coleus (Lamiaceae) shoot apex, l.s.
Keywords: prophylls, axillary buds, procambial strands

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Legend: Acacia (Fabaceae) with bullhorn stipules
Keywords: ant mutualism, bullhorn stipules, coevolution

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Legend: Acacia (Fabaceae) bipinnate leaves with beltian bodies which are used as food by mutualistic ants
Keywords: ant mutualism, bullhorn acacias, beltian bodies, modified leaves, bipinnate leaves

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Legend: Prunus (Rosaceae) leaf abscission zone, l.s. petiole
Keywords: leaf abscission, abscission zone, ethylene, cork formation

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Legend: Monocot leaf showing parallel venation pattern
Keywords: parallel venation, monocot leaf

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Legend: Modified Stems and Roots
Keywords: stems, roots

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Legend: Median Longitudinal Section Through a Hypothetical Root
Keywords: root

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Legend: Root Systems
Keywords: root systems

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Legend: Dicot Root Tip-Endodermis
Keywords: dicot root, endodermis

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Legend: Casparian Strip
Keywords: casparian strip

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Legend: Cross Section of a Root
Keywords: root

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Legend: Root Tip of Mustard (Sinapis alba)
Keywords: root

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Legend: Major Functions of Roots
Keywords: roots

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Legend: Root Systems
Keyword: roots

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Legend: A Longitudinal Section Through a Dicot Root Tip
Keyword: roots

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Legend: Root Hairs in Contact With Soil Particles
Keyword: root hairs

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Legend: Action of Contractile Roots
Keyword: contractile roots

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Legend: Mycorrhizae-Cross-section of a Root with Ectomycorrhizae
Keyword: mycorrhizae roots

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Legend: Tip Layering
Keyword: tip layering

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Legend: Propagation of Specialized Stems
Keyword: propagation

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Legend: Allium (Alliaceae:garlic) bulbs with fibrous adventitious roots
Keywords: fibrous roots, adventitious roots, bulbs, modified leaves

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Legend: Allium (Alliaceae:onion) root tip, l.s., showing amyloplasts in the columella cells
Keywords: root tip, root apical meristem, columella, amyloplasts, peripheral cells, root cap

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Legend: Ginkgo (Ginkgophyta) root tip, l.s., showing quiescent zone of the root apical meristem
Keywords: quiescent zone, root tip, root cap, root apical meristem

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Legend: The Chihuahuan "desert" is better classified as a scrub than a desert, and usually has a significant amount of permanent low woody cover
Keywords: biomes, desert scrub, chihuahuan desert, thorn scrub, ecology, vegetation

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Legend: Annuals like Lupinus arizonicus (Fabaceae:arizona lupine) may emerge in abundance in the hot desert after a good rain
Keywords: biomes, hot desert, annuals, therophytes, rainfall, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: The cold "desert" is actually a scrub vegetation often dominated by sagebrush and characterized by significant frost, low rainfall, and relatively low diversity
Keywords: biomes, scrub vegetation, diversity, productivity, ecology, frost, rainfall, ecology, sagebrush

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Legend: Hot deserts are often characterized by succulents, numerous annuals dependent on rainfall, a low percentage of permanent woody cover, and little or no frost
Keywords: biomes, ecology, vegetation, hot deserts, rainfall, annuals, succulents, frost

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Legend: The chaparral, or Mediterranean scrub, is a fire-adapted scrub community which may include up to 100% cover by low, small-leaved, woody shrubs
Keywords: biomes, ecology, vegetation, chaparral, scrub, fire, allelopathy, summer drought

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Legend: Chaparral and similar low, microphyllous scrub vegetation develop on the western sides of the earth's continents in regions marked by little or no summer rainfall
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, convergence, ecology, mediterranean scrub, chaparral

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Legend: A variety of root crops can be found in the local supermarket.
Keywords: root crops, tap roots, storage roots, root modifications

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Legend: Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae:buttercup) root, x.s., with extensive storage parenchyma in the cortex.
Keywords: dicot root, storage parenchyma, root cortex, tetrarch root

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Legend: Monocot root, x.s., with lateral roots emerging from the pericycle.
Keywords: pericycle, monocot root, lateral roots, endodermis

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Legend: Monocot root, x.s., with lateral root emerging from the pericycle.
Keywords: pericycle, monocot root, lateral root, endodermis

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Legend: Botrychium (Ophioglossales:grape fern) tetrarch root, x.s., with endodermis.
Keywords: tetrarch root, endodermis, fern root,

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Legend: Salix (Salicaceae:willow) root, x.s., with lateral (branch) root., l.s.
Keywords: lateral root, branch root, pericycle

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Legend: Podophyllun (Berberidaceae:mayapple) siphonostelic root.
Keywords: siphonostele, sophonostelic root, lateral root

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Legend: Geotropism in a pea seedling.
Keywords: geotropism, polarity, growth patterns, seedling, hypogeal

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Legend: Pandanus (Pandanaceae:screw pine) prop roots.
Keywords: prop roots, adventitious roots

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Legend: Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae:kapok tree) buttress roots in tropical West Africa.
Keywords: buttress roots, tropical rain forest

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Legend: Orchid root endomycorrhizae, x.s.
Keywords: mycorrhizae, endomycorrhizae, roots, fungi, deuteromycota

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Legend: Root ectomycorrhizae, x.s.
Keywords: mycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae, roots, fungi, deuteromycota

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Legend: Allium (Alliaceae:onion) bulb, l.s., with adventitious roots emerging from the basal stem
Keywords: adventitious roots, bulb

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Legend: Aerial roots silhouetted in a mangrove tidal flat in southern Mexico
Keywords: aerial roots, mangroves, mangrove swamp

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Legend: Aerial and prop roots in mangroves near Acapulco, Mexico
Keywords: aerial roots, prop roots, mangroves, mangrove swamp

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Legend: Toxicodendron [Rhus] (Anacardiaceae:poison ivy) anchoring roots
Keywords: adventitious roots, anchoring roots

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Legend: Adventitious roots developing in a young corn seedling
Keywords: dventitious roots, monocot roots, monocot seedling

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Legend: A tap root is bared by soil erosion
Keywords: tap root, soil erosion, dicot woody root

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Legend: Secondary Growth of Dicot Stems
Keywords: dicot stems

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Legend: Differentiation of Secondary Xylem and Secondary Phloem from the Vascular Cambium
Keywords: vascular cambium

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Legend: How Auxin Activates and Influences Vascular Cambium
Keywords: vascular cambium

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Legend: Growth Rings
Keywords: tree growth rings

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Legend: Periderm
Keywords: perioderm

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Legend: Sawed Wood Surfaces
Keyword: wood

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Legend: Pelargonium (Geraniaceae) stem, x.s., in the region of the vascular cambium
Keywords: vascular cambium, secondary xylem, secondary phloem

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Legend: Tilia (Tiliaceae:basswood) vascular cambium, oblique section
Keywords: vascular cambium, ray initials, fusiform initials

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Legend: Medicago (Fabaceae:bur clover) stem, l.s.
Keywords: pith, cortex, chlorenchyma, xylem, phloem, woody stem

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Legend: Quercus (Fagaceae:oak) woody root, x.s.
Keywords: secondary xylem, woody root, fibers, vascular cambium, secondary phloem

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) woody root, x.s.
Keywords: secondary xylem, secondary phloem, woody root, gymnosperms

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Legend: Scientists in Mexico claim the conifer, "El Tule", a bald cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) in the redwood family (Taxodiaceae), has the greatest girth of any tree alive today
Keywords: secondary growth, gymnosperms, El Tule, bald cypress

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Legend: The big trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the redwood family include the largest living individuals on the face of the earth
Keywords: giant sequoias, gymnosperms, big trees, secondary growth

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Legend: Ginkgo (Ginkgophyta) stem, x.s.
Keywords: softwood, secondary xylem, secondary phloem, resin canals, vascular cambium, gymnosperms

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Legend: Acer (Aceraceae:maple) young stem, x.s. with lenticel
Keywords: lenticel, hardwood, secondary xylem, diffuse porous, secondary phloem, phloem fibers

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Legend: Quercus (Fagaceae:oak) stem, x.s.
Keywords: secondary xylem, hardwood, ring porous, xylem rays

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) stem, x.s.
Keywords: xylem rays, softwood, vascular cambium, secondary xylem, secondary phloem, phloem fibers, tracheids, gymnosperms

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) secondary xylem, l.s., tracheids with bordered pits
Keywords: tracheids, bordered pits, gymnosperms

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Legend: Young hardwood tree, showing heartwood and sapwood
Keywords: heartwood, sapwood, secondary xylem, hardwood

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) stem, radial l.s.
Keywords: radial section, softwood, gymnosperm, secondary growth, xylem rays

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae: pine) stem, tangential l.s.
Keywords: tangential section, softwood, gymnosperm, xylem rays, secondary growth

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine ) stem, x.s.
Keywords: softwood, secondary growth, lateral branch, knot, resin canals, secondary xylem, secondary phloem, gymnosperms

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Legend: Quercus (Fagaceae:oak) stem, radial l.s.
Keywords: hardwood, radial section, secondary xylem, xylem rays, vessel tube members

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Legend: Quercus (Fagaceae:oak) stem, tangential l.s.
Keywords: hardwood, tangential section, secondary xylem, xylem rays, vessel tube members

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Legend: Two closely-related members of the birch family (Betulaceae), Carpinus caroliniana (hornbeam) and Ostrya virginiana (hop-hornbeam) have very different looking barks
Keywords: periderm, diversity, evolution, bark, hardwood, cork cambium

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Legend: Pelargonium (Geraniaceae) stem, x.s., to show cork cambium
Keywords: periderm, bark, cork cambium, cork cells, phellem, phellogen, phelloderm

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Legend: Sambucus (Caprifoliaceae:elderberry) young stem, x.s., to show lenticel
Keywords: lenticel, secondary growth, hardwood, woody stem

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Legend: Dracena (Agavaceae) stem, x.s., with secondary thickening meristems around the scattered vascular bundles
Keywords: secondary thickening meristem, woody monocots

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Legend: Elk "graffitti" on the bark of Populus tremuloides (Salicaceae:aspen)
Keywords: periderm, bark, plant-animal interactions

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Legend: Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae:sweet potato) stem, x.s. showing anomalous cambia
Keywords: anomalous cambia, secondary growth

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Legend: Robinia (Fabaceae:locust) stem, x.s.
Keywords: annual rings, xylem rays, periderm, secondary xylem, heartwood, sapwood

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Legend: Cornus florida (Cornaceae:flowering dogwood) bark, showing overlapping periderms
Keywords: overlapping periderms, bark, phellem

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Legend: Angiosperm Flower
Keywords: angiosperm

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Legend: Parts of a Flower
Keywords: flower

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Legend: Flower Stamen
Keywords: flower stamen

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Legend: Plant Ovaries-Ovules and Placenta
Keywords: plant ovaries, ovule, placenta

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Legend: Carpels of Drimys
Keywords: carpels

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Legend: Ovule
Keywords: ovule

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Legend: Development of a Polygonum-type embryo sac
Keywords: embryo sac

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Legend: Variation in Development of Embryo Sacs in Angiosperms
Keywords: angiosperm embryo sacs

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Legend: Flower Structure
Keywords: flower

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Legend: Modifications of the Basic Floral Design
Keywords: floral design modifications

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Legend: Inflorescence Types
Keywords: inflorescence

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Legend: Alternation of Diploid (sporophyte) and Haploid (gametophyte) Generations
Keywords: diploid, haploid

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Legend: Pollination and Fertilization
Keywords: pollination, fertilization

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Legend: Common Types of Inflorescences
Keywords: inflorescences

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Legend: Seed Structure and Germination-Dicot, Garden Bean
Keywords: seed, dicot

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Legend: Seeds
Keywords: seeds

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Legend: Seed Germination
Keywords: seed germination

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Legend: Wind-dispersed Fruits and Seeds
Keywords: wind-dispersed seeds

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Legend: Seed Structure and Germination-Monocot, Corn
Keywords: seed, monocot

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Legend: Parts of a Typical Flower
Keyword: flower

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Legend: Inflorescence Types
Keyword: inflorescence

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Legend: Regions of a Mature Fruit
Keyword: fruit

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Legend: A Silique After it Has Split Open
Keyword: silique

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Legend: Schizocarps of Carrots
Keyword: schizocarp

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Legend: Types of Seeds and Fruits Dispersed by Wind
Keyword: seeds, fruits

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Legend: Types of Seeds and Fruits Dispersed by Animals and Birds
Keyword: seeds, fruits

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Legend: Sedge Adaptation to Water Dispersal
Keyword: sedge water dispersal

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Legend: Filaree Fruitlets
Keyword: filaree fruitlets

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Legend: Garden Bean-Structure and Germination
Keyword: bean structure & germination

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Legend: Corn-Structure and Germination
Keyword: corn structure & germination

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Legend: Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Keyword: asexual, sexual reproduction

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Legend: Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae) is a hummingbird pollinated member of the phlox family
Keywords: sympetaly, hummingbird pollination, adaptive radiation, evolution, connation, tubular corolla, ornithophily

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Legend: Carica papaya (Caricaceae:papaya) fruit with seeds
Keywords: berry, fruit, seeds, food crop

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Legend: Geranium (Geraniaceae) pecies are dicots which produce a pentamerous flower
Keywords: pentamerous, dicot flower, whorled, petals, nectar guides, stamens, choripetalous

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Legend: Parietal placentation
Keywords: ovary, parietal placentation, ovules

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Legend: Free central placentation
Keywords: ovary, ovules, free central placentation

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Legend: Marginal placentation in the pea family (Fabaceae)
Keywords: marginal placentation, pseudomonomerous, simple ovary, ovule, legume

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Legend: Fused stamens in Hybiscus (Malvaceae)
Keywords: connation, stamens, monadelphous

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Legend: Platystemon (Papaveraceae:cream cups) like many poppy family members, is visited by bees for pollen
Keywords: pollen, dicot flower, many stamens, radial symmetry

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Legend: Nerium (Apocynaceae:oleander) flowers and leaves
Keywords: sympetaly, radial symmetry, connation, alkaloids, cardioactive glycosides

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Legend: Prunus (Rosaceae) flowers are perigynous and pseudomonomerous (one simple ovary)
Keywords: pseudomonomerous, simple ovary, perigynous, hypanthium, superior ovary

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Legend: Fritillaria ( Liliaceae:fritillary) capsules are produced from a compound ovary produced from the fusion of three carpels
Keywords: compound ovary, connation, capsule, ovules, axile placentation, carpels

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Legend: Cytisus ( Fabaceae:scotch broom) flowers are bilaterally symmetrical
Keywords: papilionaceous flower, bilateral symmetry, bee pollination, dicot flower

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Legend: Crassula falcata (Crassulaceae) flowers have four whorls, each with five separate parts
Keywords: isomerous flowers, radial symmetry, simple ovaries, apocarpous, CAM metabolism, petals, carpels, choripetaly

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Legend: Cultivated rose flowers usually have several "petals" that are actually modified, petaloid sterile stamens
Keywords: petaloid stamens, staminodea, polyploidy, horticulture

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Legend: Coleus (Lamiaceae), like many mints, produces a whorled inflorescence
Keywords: whorled inflorescence, bilateral symmetry, opposite leaves, anthocyanins

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Legend: Magnolia (Magnoliaceae) flowers have many separate parts arranged in spirals on a conical receptacle
Keywords: besseyan flower, spiral flower arrangement, primitive angiosperm, evolution, apocarpous

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Legend: Jatropha (Euphorbiaceae) flowers are unisexual, yet insect pollinated
Keywords: insect pollination, unisexual flowers, male flower, female flower, branched stigmas, hypogynous, superior ovary, fruit

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Legend: Helleborus (Ranunculaceae) flowers have five separate carpels, each of which produces a follicle
Keywords: follicle, apocarpous, superior ovary

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Legend: Malus (Rosaceae:apple) flowers have an inferior ovary, ultimately producing a pome fruit
Keywords: inferior ovary, epigynous, pome, hypanthium

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Legend: Prunus (Rosaceae) flowers are perigynous with a single, simple ovary surrounded by a distinct, cup-shaped hypanthium
Keywords: hypanthium, perigynous, superior ovary, simple ovary, pseudomonomerous

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Legend: The rose "hip" is actually a perigynous hypanthium which surrounds several separate pistils which produce achenes
Keywords: achenes, perigynous, hypanthium, apocarpous, fruit

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Legend: Avena fatua (Poaceae:wild oats) spikelet with glumes and three florets
Keywords: grass flower, spikelet, floret, glumes, lemma, awns

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Legend: Avena fatua (Poaceae:wild oats) floret with the palea and lemma pulled back from view
Keywords: stigmas, lodicules, grass flower, floret, versatile anthers, wind pollination, anemophily

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Legend: Tricolpate pollen grain of Pedilanthus bracteatus (Euphorbiaceae)
Keywords: pollen, exine, tricolpate

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Legend: Lilium (Liliaceae:lily) ovary, x.s.
Keywords: ovules, compound ovary, axile placentation, superior ovary, capsule, megasporogenesis

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Legend: Lilium ovule, x.s., megasporocyte
Keywords: ovule, integuments, nucellus, megasporocyte, megasporogenesis, micropyle, embryo sac, meiosis

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Legend: Lilium ovule, first division
Keywords: ovule, megasporogenesis, meiosis, first division, embryo sac

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Legend: Lilium ovule, two-nucleate stage
Keywords: meiosis, embryo sac, ovule, two-nucleate, megasporogenesis

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Legend: Lilium ovule, first four-nucleate stage
Keywords: meiosis, embryo sac, first four-nucleate, megasporogenesis, megaspores

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Legend: Lilium ovule, migration stage
Keywords: embryo sac, migration, ovule

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Legend: Lilium ovule, second four-nucleate stage
Keywords: embryo sac, second four-nucleate, ovule

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Legend: Lilium ovule, eight-celled megagametophyte
Keywords: embryo sac, megagametophyte, ovule, eight-celled, antipodals, synergids, egg nucleus, polar nuclei

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Legend: Trillium (Liliaceae) flowers have parts in threes, typical of many monocots
Keywords: monocot flower, whorled flower, radial symmetry, superior ovary, calyx, corolla, petals, sepals, stamens, compound ovary, trimerous flower

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Legend: Lilium ovule, double fertilization
Keywords: fertilization, double fertilization, ovule, endosperm nucleus, zygote, sperm, polar nuclei, synergids

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Legend: This Acacia (Fabaceae) is a mimosoid legume that produces flowers in spikes
Keywords: inflorescence, twice-pinnate leaves, spikes, mimosoid flower, showy stamens

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Legend: Delphinium (Ranunculaceae:larkspur) often produces flowers in a raceme
Keywords: inflorescence, bilateral symmetry, raceme, pedicel, nectar spur, bee pollination, melittophily

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Legend: These Cornus (Cornaceae:dogwood) flowers are produced in a corymb
Keywords: inflorescence, corymb

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Legend: Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae:milkweeds) species usually produce flowers in an umbel
Keywords: inflorescence, umbel, cardioactive glycosides, coevolution

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Legend: Heracleum (Apiaceae:cow parsnip) and other parsley family members often produce compound umbels
Keywords: inflorescence, compound umbel, inferior ovary, schizocarp

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Legend: This rare South African Protea (Proteaceae) produces heads of flowers over eight inches across with showy red bracts to attract perching, nectar-feeding birds
Keywords: inflorescence, head, bracts, perching bird pollination, ornithophily

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Legend: Acer negundo (Aceraceae:box elder) is usually dioecious, producing either pistillate flowers (left) in condensed racemes or staminate flowers (right) in fascicles
Keywords: dioecious, unisexual flowers, pistillate flowers, staminate flowers, palmately compound leaves, wind pollination, anemophily

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Legend: Acer negundo (Aceraceae:box elder) pistillate flowers
Keywords: staminate flowers, unisexual flowers, wind pollination, anemophily

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Legend: Alnus (Betulaceae:alder) with last year's pistillate inflorescence (left) and erect pistillate and pendant staminate catkins (right)
Keywords: inflorescence, monoecious, catkins, spikes, unisexual flowers, wind pollination, anemophily

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Legend: This Ambrosia (Asteraceae:ragweed) produces staminate flowers and bur-like pistillate flowers on the same spike
Keywords: inflorescence, spike, unisexual flowers, monoecious, wind pollination, anemophily

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Legend: This grass has formed a clone which once started as an individual at the center of the ring
Keywords: cloning, asexual reproduction

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Legend: Populus tremuloides ( Salicaceae:aspen) stands may be cloned from a single individual
Keywords: cloning, asexual reproduction

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Legend: Piney woods in central Louisiana
Keywords: biomes, mixed pine-hardwood forest, southern pine forest, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: A partially-disturbed remnant of the mixed to tall prairie in Chataqua, Kansas
Keywords: biomes, grasslands, tall prairie, mixed prairie, vegetation, conservation

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Legend: Short grass prairie or steppe, west of Laramie, Wyoming
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, steppe, short grass prairie, grasslands, ecology

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Legend: The palouse prairie in eastern Washington is a major wheat-growing area
Keywords: biomes, grasslands, vegetation, palouse prairie, ecology, wheat

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Legend: The coastal salt marsh, shown here near Galveston, Texas, is dominated by Distichlis spicata (poaceae:salt grass)
Keywords: biomes, saltmarsh, grasslands, ecology, conservation, vegetation

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Legend: Vernal pools like this one near Sacramento, California, are ephemeral ponds which form in the spring in grassland regions
Keywords: biomes, vernal pools, grasslands, temporal isolation, ecology, vegetation

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Legend: Opuntia (Cactaceae:cholla cactus) produced easily separated stem segments that can fall to the ground and form clones
Keywords: asexual reproduction, cloning, vegetative propagation

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Legend: Asclepias californica (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed) is primarily bee pollinated
Keywords: bee pollination, bumblebees, radial symmetry, pollinia, melittophily

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Legend: Oplopanax horridum (Araliaceae) is pollinated by a variety of insects, including beetles and flies
Keywords: beetle pollination, cantharophily, fly pollination, myophily, umbel, inflorescence

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Legend: Episcia (Gesneriaceae) is moth pollinated
Keywords: phalaenophily, moth pollination, tubular corolla, sympetaly, bilateral symmetry

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Legend: Erysimum capitatum (Brassicaceae:wall flower) is usually butterfly pollinated
Keywords: butterfly pollination, psychophily

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Legend: Flowers in the genus Rubus (Rosaceae) produce aggregate fruits composed of many drupelets
Keywords: aggregate fruit, drupelet, apocarpous, berry, fruit

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Legend: Campsis radicans (Bignoniaceae:trumpet creeper) is hummingbird pollinated
Keywords: hummingbird pollination, bilateral symmetry, sympetaly, ornithophily

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Legend: Cherries, produced by the genus Prunus (Rosaceae), are drupes, a type of berry
Keywords: drupe, fruit, berry

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Legend: Citrus fruits are a type of berry called a hesperidium
Keywords: hesperidium, fruit, berry

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Legend: Asclepias viridis (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed) produces a follicle
Keywords: follicle, fruit, simple ovary, latex

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Legend: The cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae) produces pepos, a type of berry
Keywords: pepo, fruit, berry

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Legend: Pomes, like these apples and pears, are accessory fruits produced from an inferior ovary
Keywords: pome, accessory fruit, berry, inferior ovary

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Legend: Calochortus (Liliaceae:mariposa lily) on the left and Iris (Iridaceae:iris) both produce capsules
Keywords: compound ovary, fruit, capsule, dehiscence

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Legend: Elongate fruits in the crucifer or mustard family (Brassicaceae) are called siliques
Keywords: capsule, silique, compound ovary, fruit

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Legend: Short fruits in the crucifer or mustard family (Brassicaceae) are called silicles
Keywords: silicle, compound ovary, capsule, fruit

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Legend: Acorns produced by the genus Quercus (Fagaceae:oaks) are classified as nuts
Keywords: acorn, nut, fruit

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Legend: The fruit produced by the maple family (Aceraceae) is both a schizocarp and a samara
Keywords: schizocarp, samara, fruit, wind dispersal

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Legend: Species in the genus Ulmus (Ulmaceae:elms) produce wind-blown samaras
Keywords: samara, wind dispersal, fruit

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Legend: Ranunculus (Ranunculaceae:buttercup) flowers produce an aggregate of achenes
Keywords: fruit, achene, apocarpous, aggregate fruit

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Legend: Cereal grains, like rice, are termed a caryopsis
Keywords: caryopsis, cereal grain, fruit, food crop

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Legend: Rhus (Anacardiaceae:sumac) produces flowers in a panicle
Keywords: inflorescence, panicle, pinnately compound leaves

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Legend: Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae:coconut) produces a nut adapted for water dispersal in the world's oceans
Keywords: fruit, nut, food crop

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Legend: Tragopogon (Asteraceae:goat's beard) and many other sunflower family members use a modified calyx called the pappus to distribute their achenes via the wind
Keywords: wind dispersal, pappus, fruits, achenes

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Legend: Phoradendron (Viscaceae:mistletoe) has sticky fruits that can be dispersed by birds and other animals
Keywords: fruits, animal dispersal, sticky fruits

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Legend: The red fruits of Cornus (Cornaceae:dogwood) attract birds, which eat the fruits and later disperse the seeds
Keywords: berry, fruit, bird dispersal

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Legend: Medicago hispida (Fabaceae:bur clover) produces a spiny, tightly-coiled legume which may be dispersed by temporarily attaching to an animal's fur
Keywords: bur, sticky fruit, animal dispersal, legume, fruit

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Legend: Each of the five carpels of the Erodium (Geraniaceae) ovary produces a hygroscopic, spiral tail from part of the style that helps drill the seeds into the ground
Keywords: schizocarp, fruit, hygroscopic

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Legend: Pyracantha (Rosaceae) berries are pomes, produced from an inferior ovary
Keywords: pome, inferior ovary, accessory fruit, fruit, berry

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Legend: The seeds of most Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed) species produce a coma of hairs that aid in wind dispersal
Keywords: coma, fruit, placenta, follicle, wind dispersal, seeds

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Legend: Astragalus (Fabaceae:loco weed), a selenuim accumulator, often produces inflated legume pods
Keywords: legume, fruit, selenium, mineral accumulation, alkaloids, simple ovary, papilionaceous flower

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Legend: Crab spiders (Thomisidae) frequently hide among flowers to ambush unsuspecting pollinators
Keywords: crab spiders, pollination, honey bee, predation

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Legend: Capsella (Brassicaceae:shepherd's purse) seed with embryo before developing cotyledons
Keywords: embryogenesis, early embryo, silicle, fruit, integument, seed coat, free nuclear endosperm, basal cell, suspensor, antipodal mass

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Legend: Capsella (Brassicaceae:shepherd's purse) seed with embryo with early cotyledons
Keywords: seed, integument, seed coat, antipodal mass, early cotyledons, embryo, cellular endosperm, basal cell, suspensor

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Legend: Capsella (Brassicaceae:shepherd's purse) seed with mature embryo
Keywords: seed, integument, mature embryo, cotyledons, seed coat

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Legend: Experiments that Demonstrated the Existence of Auxins
Keywords: auxins

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Legend: Measuring Plant Hormones-Bioassay
Keywords: bioassay

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Legend: Measuring Plant Hormoes-Oat (Avena) Bioassay
Keywords: bioassay

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Legend: Structure of Indole-3-acetic Acid (IAA)
Keywords: indole-3-acetic acid

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Legend: IAA
Keywords: IAA auxin

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Legend: Polar Transport of Auxin (shaded)
Keywords: auxin polar transport

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Legend: Gibberellin
Keywords: gibberellin

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Legend: Three of the More Than Eighty Gibberellins
Keywords: gibberellins

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Legend: Cytokinins
Keywords: cytokinins

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Legend: Responses of Plant Tissue Culture to Kinetin and Auxin
Keywords: kinetin, auxin

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Legend: Biosynthesis of Ethylene from Methionine
Keywords: biosynthesis, ethylene methionine

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Legend: External Features of Woody Twigs
Keywords: twigs

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Legend: Structure of Abscisic Acid (ABA)
Keywords: abscisic acid

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Legend: Hormonal Interactions Influence Plant Growth and Development
Keywords: hormonal interactions, plant growth

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Legend: Went's Experiment
Keyword: Went's experiment

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Legend: How a Bioassay of Auxin is Made
Keyword: auxin

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Legend: The red color in this bottomland hardwood forest scene in Florida comes from the fruit of Acer rubra (Aceraceae:red maple)
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, hardwood forest, ecology, eastern deciduous forest

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Legend: Distinct seasons mark the temperate eastern deciduous hardwood forest
Keywords: biomes, eastern deciduous forest, temperate hardwood forest, senescence

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Legend: Charles Darwin's Demonstration of Spiraling Growth
Keyword: Darwin's spiraling growth

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Legend: Fall colors along the Shreveport, Louisiana King's Highway Bayou
Keywords: senescence, accessory pigments, leaf color, pigments, abscisic acid, hormones

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Legend: Auxin stimulates the production of adventitious roots like these anchoring roots of poison ivy
Keywords: anchoring roots, auxin, adevntitious roots, hormones

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Legend: The dwarf peas on the left were sprayed with gibberellin, those on the right were not
Keywords: gibberellin, bolting, stem elongation, hormones

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Legend: These insect galls on bald cypress are produced by cytokinin-like compounds in the sting of a female wasp
Keywords: cytokinin, insect galls, cell division, plant-animal interactions, hormones

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Legend: Differentiation in callus plugs can be controlled by the ratio of cytokinins to auxin
Keywords: differentiation, auxin, cytokinin, callus plug, hormones

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Legend: Young woody twigs of Magnolia (Magnoliaceae) in winter
Keywords: lenticels, leaf scar, axillary buds, terminal buds, bud scales, abscisic acid, dormancy, hormones

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Legend: Young woody twigs of Carya (Juglandaceae:hickory) in winter
Keywords: lenticels, terminal bud scale scars, leaf scars, axillary buds, terminal buds, hormones

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Legend: Brigg's Experiments
Keywords: Brigg's experiments

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Legend: Seismonasty in the Sensitive Plant
Keywords: seismonasty, turgor

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Legend: Flowering Responses to Daylength
Keywords: plant flowering

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Legend: Chailakhyan's Experiments (1)
Keywords: florigen experiments

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Legend: Chailakhyan's Experiments (2)
Keywords: florigen experiments

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Legend: Influence of Daylength and Night Length on Flowering
Keywords: flowering

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Legend: Phytochrome
Keywords: phytochrome

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Legend: A Clinostat
Keyword: clinostat

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Legend: Pulvinus of a Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica)
Keyword: pulvinus

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Legend: Contact Movements of the Stamens of a Barberry Flower
Keyword: contact movement

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Legend: Phytochrome Interconversions
Keyword: phytochrome interconversion

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Legend: Flowering Experiment
Keyword: flowering

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Legend: Flowers of Helianthella (Asteraceae:little sunflower) facing the morning sun
Keywords: phototropism, heloitropism, auxin, hormones

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Legend: When held sideways, Coleus (Lamiaceae) shoots exhibit negative gravitropism
Keywords: gravitropism, auxin, hormones

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Legend: This grape stem, tightly coiled around an oak, is triggering a wounding response as the oak increases its diameter
Keywords: ethylene, auxin, thigmotropism

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Legend: Thigmotropic coiling of petiolar tendrils in Smilax (Smilacaceae:greenbriar) aid in the climbing habit of this woody vine
Keywords: petiolar tendrils, thigmotropism, vines, coiling

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Legend: Mimosa (Fabaceae:sensitive plant) plants along a roadside in Costa Rica prior to a mechanical disturbance. See 19-6.
Keywords: seismonasty, herbivory, pulvinus, motor cells, turgor

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Legend: Mimosa (Fabaceae:sensitive plant) plants along a roadside in Costa Rica after a mechanical disturbance. Same view as 19-5.
Keywords: seismonasty, herbivory, pulvinus, motor cells, turgor

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Legend: Solidago (Asteraceae:goldenrods) is a common short-day, fall-blooming plant
Keywords: photoperiodism, short-day plant, phytochrome, flowering response

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Legend: Phlox pilosa(Polemoniaceae) and Trifolium rubrum (Fabaceae) are two common spring-flowering long-day plants
Keywords: photoperiodism, long-day plants, phytochrome, flowering response

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Legend: Trichocereus (Cactaceae: night-blooming cereus) flowers only open and produce an odor at night and are attractive to nocturnal bats and moths
Keywords: bat pollination, chiropterophily, moth pollination, chiropterophily, circadian rhythms

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Legend: Cation Exchange in Soil
Keywords: cation exchange

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Legend: Soil Under Three Conditions of Hydration
Keywords: soil hydration

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Legend: Discovering Essential Plant Nutrients
Keywords: plant nutrients

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Legend: Proportional Weights of Various Elements in Plants
Keywords: plant elements

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Legend: How the pH of Soil Affects the Availability of Nutrients
Keywords: soil pH

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Legend: Root Hairs Absorb Water and Nutrients from the Soil
Keywords: root hairs

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Legend: Apoplastic Versus Symplastic Pathways in Roots
Keywords: root pathways

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Legend: How Plants Get Nitrogen from the Soil
Keywords: plants

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Legend: Nitrogenase
Keywords: nitrogenase

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Legend: This peat-covered spodosol was formed under a boreal Tsuga (Pinaceae:hemlock) forest
Keywords: spodosol, soil, peat, boreal forest, conifer forest, leaching

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Legend: This lateritic crust (oxysol) was produced under what was once tropical seasonal forest in northern Benin
Keywords: laterite, oxysol, tropical rain forest, seasonal rain forest, leaching, soil

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Legend: Laterite, often referred to as ironstone, is formed when iron-rich tropical rain forest oxysols dry out after the forest is cut and destroyed
Keywords: laterite, ironstone, oxysol, soil, tropical rain forest, leaching

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Legend: Mollisols are nutrient-rich soils characteristic of semi-arid grasslands
Keywords: mollisol, grasslands, calcification, soil

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Legend: This chestnut-brown soil (an aridisol) was formed under Wyoming sagebrush scrub on a bed of loess
Keywords: aridisol, soil, sagebrush scrub, calcification

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Legend: Mistletoes, like Phoradendron juniperianum (Viscaceae) are greenish, but do not photosynthesize, gaining nutrition by parasitizing their host
Keywords: parasitism, haustoria, epiphytes, nutrition

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Legend: Stanleya pinnata (Brassicaceae:prince's plume) is a selenium accumulator
Keywords: mineral accumulator, selenium, nutrition

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Legend: Many crops, like these strawberries, can now be grown efficiently using hydroponic culturing techniques
Keywords: hydroponics, nutrition, strawberries

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Legend: These tomatoes are grown year round in a greenhouse using hydroponic culturing techniques
Keywords: hydroponics, nutrition, tomatoes

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Legend: Cuscuta (Cuscutaceae: dodder) is a haustorial, non-photosynthetic parasite in its own family, but related to the bindweeds and morning glories in the Convolvulaceae
Keywords: parasitism, nutrition, haustoria

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Legend: The non-photosynthetic Monotropa uniflora (Monotropaceae: indian pipe) utilizes mycorrhizal fungi as a nutrient bridge with other plants
Keywords: parasitism, mycorrhizae, nutrition, roots

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Legend: Anthoceros (Bryophyta:hornwort) thallus, x.s. with endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing blue-green bacterium Anabaena (Cyanobacteria)
Keywords: cyanobacteria, bryophytes, endosymbiosis, nitrogen-fixation, nutrition

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Legend: Epiphytes like this bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) use other plants to gain space and access to light, but do not parasitize their host
Keywords: epiphytes, tropical rain forest, tropical deciduous forest, nutrition

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Legend: Magnesium deficiency in tomato plants (left) with control (right)
Keywords: minerals, nutrients, nutrition, magnesium

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Legend: Potassium deficiency in tomato plants (left) with control (right)
Keywords: potassium, nutrients, nutrition, minerals

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Legend: Nitrogen deficiency in tomato plants (left) with control (right)
Keywords: nitrogen, nutrients, nutrition, minerals

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Legend: Iron deficiency in tomato plants (left) with control (right)
Keywords: iron, nutrients, nutrition, minerals

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Legend: Iron deficiency in Rhododendron (Ericaceae:azalea)
Keywords: iron, nutrients, nutrition, chlorosis, minerals

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Legend: A Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae:pitcher plants) bog in central Louisiana
Keywords: insectivorous plants, carnivorous plants, nitrogen deficiency, pitcher plant bog, leaf modifications, nutrition

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Legend: Sarracenia alata (Sarraceniaceae:pitcher plant)
Keywords: pitcher plant, leaf modifications, nitrogen deficiency, nutrition, bog

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Legend: Darlingtonia (Sarraceniaceae:cobra lily) in a pitcher plant bog in Butterfly Valley, California
Keywords: pitcher plant, leaf modification, nitrogen deficiency, nutrition, bog

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Legend: Effect of Atmospheric Pressure on a Column of Water
Keywords: atmospheric pressure

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Legend: Transpiration-cohesion Hypothesis
Keywords: transpiration-cohesion

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Legend: Diurnal Curve of Stomatal Opening
Keywords: stomatal opening

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Legend: Stomatal Opening and Closing
Keywords: stomatal opening

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Legend: Transpiration-photosynthesis Compromise
Keywords: transpiration-photosynthesis

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Legend: Pressure-flow Hypothesis for Solute Movement
Keywords: pressure-flow, solute movement

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Legend: Translocation of Sugar
Keywords: translocation

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Legend: Pressure Flow in the Phloem of Flowering Plants
Keywords: pressure flow, phloem

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Legend: Sucrose Loading into Phloem
Keywords: phloem, sucrose

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Legend: Guttation from leaf hydathodes in a tropical rain forest.
Keywords: guttation, hydathodes, root pressure, tropical rain forest

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Legend: Alkali sink in Death Valley, California
Keywords: alkali, calcification, soils, mineral accumulation

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Legend: The vertical leaves of Callistemon (Myrtaceae: bottle brush) produce palisade parenchyma on both sides of the leaf
Keywords: vertical leaves, double palisade, leaf modifications, showy stamens

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Legend: Clivia (Amaryllidaceae:kafir lily) vertical leaf with thick cuticle
Keywords: vertical leaf, cuticle, leaf modification, double palisade, stomate, guard cells

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Legend: Xerophytic Nerium (Apocynaceae:oleander) leaf with thick cuticle and stomatal crypts
Keywords: xerophytic leaf, cuticle, stomatal crypts, leaf modifications

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Legend: Aphid feeding on a leaf
Keywords: aphid, phloem feeders, stylet, sieve tube

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Legend: Evolutionary Historical Time Line
Keywords: evolutionary theories

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Legend: The Beagle Voyage
Keywords: Beagle, Darwin

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Legend: Darwin's Theory of Finches on the Gal‡pagos Islands
Keywords: Darwin

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Legend: Predictions of Malthus which Led to Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
Keywords: Malthus, Darwin

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Legend: The Five Kingdoms
Keywords: kingdoms

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Legend: Evolutionary History of Organisms Portrayed as a Tree Growing Through Time
Keywords: organism evolution

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Legend: Variations in Fruit Morphology
Keywords: fruit morphology

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Legend: Artificial Selection
Keywords: artificial selection

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Legend: Stabilizing, Directional, and Diversifying Selection for Leaf Margination
Keywords: leaf margination

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Legend: Gene Flow is Inhibited by Geographical Barriers Between Populations
Keywords: gene flow

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Legend: Genetic Drift Over Three Generations May Alter Gene Frequencies
Keywords: genetic drift

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Legend: Three Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction Enhance Genetic Variation
Keywords: sexual reproduction mechanisms

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Legend: Changes in the Average Size of Cells in a Population of E. Coli During 3,000 Generations
Keywords: e. coli

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Legend: Geological processes have exposed layers of ancient soils and fossils in the Grand Canyon
Keywords: evolution, paleobiology, fossils

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Legend: Psilotum (Psilophyta) is isotomously-branched, as are the earliest-known vascular plant fossils
Keywords: evolution, psilophytes, isotomous branching, dichotomous branching, seedless vascular plants, synangia

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Legend: This Cistus (Cistaceae:rock rose) has pink petals, colored by anthocyanins
Keywords: evolution, anthocyanins, radial symmetry, many stamens

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Legend: The primitive cactus, Pereskia (Cactaceae) has pink petals colored by betacyanins, and retains its leaves, suggesting a leafy ancestor to the cactus family
Keywords: betacyanins, evolution

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Legend: Aquilegia caerulea (Ranunculaceae:columbine) is adapted primarily to bee pollination
Keywords: evolution, adaptive radiation, bee pollination, melittophily

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Legend: Aquilegia formosa (Ranunculaceae: columbine) is almost exclusively pollinated by hummingbirds
Keywords: evolution, adaptive radiation, ornithophily, hummingbird pollination

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Legend: Aquilegia pubescens (Ranunculaceae: columbine) is moth pollinated
Keywords: evolution, phalaenophily, moth pollination, adaptive radiation

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Legend: All these vegetables belong to one species in the mustard family, Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae)
Keywords: artificial selection, evolution, food crop

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Legend: These pepos, all members of the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae) probably arose from a single ancestral species, largely through artificial selection
Keywords: artificial selection, evolution, food crop

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Legend: Ecotypes of Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae: yarrow) near Bodega Bay, California are tall and robust
Keywords: ecotypes, evolution, natural selection

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Legend: Ecotypes of Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae:yarrow) at higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada mountains are relatively short and fragile.
Keywords: ecotypes, evolution, natural selection

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Legend: Bear valley, California supports a large population of Layia platyglossa (Asteraceae:tidy tips) in the early spring
Keywords: population, evolution, natural selection

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Legend: This Calliandra (Fabaceae) is a mimosoid legume adapted to hummingbird pollination
Keywords: mimosoid legume, adaptive radiation, hummingbird pollination, ornithophily, showy stamens, natural selection

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Legend: This Strelitzia (Strelitziaceae:bird of paradise) is adapted to perching birds
Keywords: adaptive radiation, natural selection, evolution, perching bird pollination, ornithophily

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Legend: Lipparia splendens (Fabaceae) is a South African papilionoid legume adapted to pollination by perching birds
Keywords: papilionoid legume, perching bird pollination, ornithophily, natural selection, evolution, showy bracts

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Legend: Pinus echinata (Pinaceae:short-needle pine) and Pinus taeda (loblolly pine), sympatric across much of the southern United States, maintain temporal isolation by shedding their pollen at different times
Keywords: temporal isolation, pre-zygotic isolation, evolution, sympatry, gymnosperms

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Legend: Caralluma (Asclepiadaceae) attracts fungus flies by its appearance and smell
Keywords: succulent stems, convergence, adaptive radiation, sapromyophily, fly pollination, evolution

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Legend: This Echinocereus (Cactaceae) has many characters in common with succulents from other families adapted to arid climates
Keywords: convergence, adaptation, evolution, succulent stems, spines, natural selection

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Legend: This southwest African Hoodia (Asclepiadaceae) occupies an arid niche similar to some cacti in the new world
Keywords: convergence, evolution, succulent stems, carrion fly pollination, sapromyophily, natural selection

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Legend: This African succulent Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) could easily be mistaken for a cactus by the casual observer
Keywords: convergence, evolution, succulent stems, natural selection

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Legend: Flowers of Clarkia speciosa (Onagraceae) open their stigmas only after their own pollen has been shed, increasing the likelihood of cross pollination
Keywords: pollination, outcrossing, evolution, cross pollination, stigmas, radial symmetry

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Legend: Two Species of Liriodendron
Keywords: Liriodendron, hybrids

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Legend: Comparisons of DNA Fingerprints
Keywords: DNA fingerprints

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Legend: Three Modes of Speciation
Keywords: speciation

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Legend: Speciation
Keywords: speciation

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Legend: Pollen Dispersal
Keywords: pollen dispersal

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Legend: Hybridization
Keywords: hybridization

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Legend: Sterility in Hybrids
Keywords: hybrid sterility

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Legend: Introgression
Keywords: introgression

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Legend: Polyploidy by Nondisjuction of Chromosomes-During Meiosis
Keywords: polyploidy nondisjuction

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Legend: Polyploidy by Nondisjunction of Chromosomes-Allopolyploidy
Keywords: polyploidy, nondisjuction, allopolyploidy

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Legend: Polyploidy Can Restore Fertility
Keywords: polyploidy

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Legend: Asclepias elata (left) and Asclepias glaucescens (Asclepiadaceae:milkweeds) are recognized as distinct species, but occasionally hybridize when sympatric
Keywords: sympatry, speciation, reproductive isolation, hybridization

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Legend: Calohortus superbus (Liliaceae:mariposa lily) shares many similarities with another mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus (see 23-3), suggesting a recent common ancestry
Keywords: speciation, reproductive isolation, sister species, evolution

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Legend: Calohortus venustus (Liliaceae:mariposa lily), appears closely-related evolutionarily to Calochortus superbus (see 23-2) but the two species are allopatric in their distribution
Keywords: speciation, allopatry, evolution, ancestry, sister species

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Legend: Taraxacum officinale (Asteraceae:dandelion) is a dubious species with varying morphology, chromosome numbers, and reproductive modes
Keywords: variation, speciation, dubious species, apomixis, polyploidy, self-pollination, cross-pollination, ecotypes

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Legend: Trachelospermum (Apocynaceae) is moth pollinated, producing a strong sweet odor only at night
Keywords: temporal isolation, moth pollination, phalaenophily, speciation, adaptation, evolution

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Legend: Many cultivars, like this Camellia (Theaceae) are polyploids
Keywords: polyploidy, speciation, artificial selection, evolution

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Legend: In Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae:milkweeds) pollination, pollen packets must be inserted into a chamber, this process providing the opportunity for mechical isolation
Keywords: mechanical isolation, reproductive isolation, pre-zygotic isolation, speciation

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Legend: Cornus nuttallii (Cornaceae:western flowering dogwood) is geographically isolated from the eastern flowering dogwood, Cornus florida (see 23-9)
Keywords: geographic isolation, allopatry, speciation, reproductive isolation

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Legend: Cornus florida (Cornaceae:eastern flowering dogwood) is geographically isolated from the western flowering dogwood, Cornus nuttallii (see 23-8)
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Legend: Penstemon grinelli (Scrophulariaceae:beard's tongue)is bee pollinated but may occasionally hybridize with the hummingbird pollinated P. centranthifolia when they are sympatric (see 23-11)
Keywords: sympatric speciation, hummingbird pollination, ornithophily, bee pollination, melittophily, wasp pollination, evolution, reproductive isolation, behavioral isolation, hybridization

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Legend: Penstemon centranthifolius (Scrophulariceae:beard's tongue) is pollinated by hummingbirds (left) while P. spectabilis(right) is largely visited by wasps (see 23-10)
Keywords: sympatric speciation, hybridization, evolution, hummingbird pollination, ornithophily, bee pollination, melittophily, wasp pollination, reproductive isolation, behavioral isolation

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Legend: The eastern U.S. Asclepias syriaca (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed) intergrades in characteristics with the western A. speciosa (see 23-13) in Kansas and Nebraska
Keywords: introgression, hybridization, speciation, evolution

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Legend: Asclepias speciosa (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed) and A. syriaca (see 23-12) share traits in the central U.S., where they are sympatric
Keywords: introgression, hybridization , speciation, evolution

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Legend: This individual, found in central Kansas, is probably a hybrid between Asclepias syriaca and A. speciosa (Asclepiadaceae:milkweeds) (see 23-13 and 23-12)
Keywords: introgression, hybridization, speciation, evolution

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Legend: Ascepias macroura (Asclepiadaceae:milkweed), previously named as a distinct species, may actually be a hybrid between A. elata and A. glaucescens (see 23-1)
Keywords: hybridization, speciation, evolution

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Legend: Traditional Classification and Phylogeny of Plants
Keywords: plant classification, phylogeny

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Legend: Cladogram Showing the Phylogenetic Relationships of Three Species
Keywords: phylogenic cladogram

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Legend: Plant Cladogram-Anthocyanins Primitive, Betalains Derived
Keywords: plant cladogram

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Legend: Plant Cladogram-Betalains Primitive, Anthocyanins Derived Twice
Keywords: plant cladogram

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Legend: Plant Cladogram-Betalains Primitive, Anthocyanins Derived Once
Keywords: plant cladogram

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Legend: RNA-based Molecular Phylogeny of Life
Keywords: molecular phylogeny

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Legend: Hypothetical Derivations and Relationships Among Kingdoms and the Major Groups of Organisms
Keyword: kingdoms

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Legend: A Simple Cladogram Showing Relationships of Three Species
Keyword: species cladogram

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Legend: Some systematic authors place the mimosoid legumes like Acacia (Fabaceae) in their own family, the Mimosaceae
Keywords: diversity, evolution, systematics, scientific names, taxonomy

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Legend: Some systematic authors place the caesalpinoid legumes, like Caesalpinia (Fabaceae) in their own family, the Caesalpiniaceae
Keywords: diversity, evolution, systematics, scientific names, taxonomy

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Legend: Some systematic authors place the papilionoid legume s. like Lupinus (Fabaceae) in their own family, the Fabaceae (sensu stricto) or the Papilionaceae
Keywords: diversity, evolution, systematics, scientific names, taxonomy

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Legend: Linnaea borealis(Caprifoliaceae: twin flower) was named in honor of Carl Von Linne (Carolus Linnaeus), the "Father of Modern Taxonomy"
Keywords: modular growth, taxonomy, Linnaeus, systematics

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Legend: 30S Subunit of Ribosomes in Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, and Eukaryotes
Keywords: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Eukaryotes

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Legend: Conjugation in Bacteria
Keyword: bacteria conjugation

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Legend: Unpigmented Bacteria and Blue-green Bacteria
Keyword: bacteria

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Legend: Blue-green Bacteria (1)
Keyword: bacteria

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Legend: Blue-green Bacteria (2)
Keyword: bacteria

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Legend: Plant Virus
Keyword: RNA polypeptide

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Legend: Phage Virus
Keyword: phage virus

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Legend: Development of a Phage Virus Within a Bacillus Bacterium
Keyword: phage virus

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Legend: A Virus is a Nucleic Acid Coated with Protein
Keyword: virus

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Legend: Root nodules filled with the nitrogen-fixing bacterium, Rhizobium, provide a source of nitrogen and an ecological adavantage to members of the legume family (Fabaceae)
Keywords: nitrogen fixation, root nodules, bacteria

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Legend: Legume root nodule cells, x.s., filled with Rhizobium
Keywords: nitrogen fixation, root nodules, bacteria

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Legend: Nostoc balls (Cyanobacteria).
Keywords: cyanobacteria, nitrogen fixation, gelatinous sheath

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Legend: The filamentous Anabaena (Cyanobacteria) with nitrogen-fixing heterocysts
Keywords: cyanobacteria, nitrogen fixation, heterocysts

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Legend: Arthrospira (Cyanobacteria)
Keywords: cyanobacteria

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Legend: Gloeotrichia (Cyanobacteria) with basal nitrogen-fixing heterocysts and akinetes
Keywords: nitrogen fixation, cyanobacteria, heterocysts, akinetes

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Legend: The thermophilic bacteria that brilliantly color these pools in Yellowstone National Park belong in the Cyanobacteria
Keywords: thermophilic bacteria, cyanobacteria

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Legend: Mosaic viruses can form mosaic-like patterns on the leaves of certain flowering plants
Keywords: mosaic virus

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Legend: Slime Mold Life Cycle
Keywords: slime mold life cycle

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Legend: fe Cycle of Saprolegnia
Keywords: saprolegnia life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Rhizopus Stolonifer
Keywords: Rhizopus stolonifer life cycle

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Legend: Asexual Reproduction in Pilobolus
Keywords: asexual reproduction in Pilobolus

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Member of the Ascomycota
Keywords: ascomycota life cycle

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Legend: urospora Crassa, an Ascomycete Used in Genetic Studies
Keywords: ascomycete neurospora crassa

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Mushroom
Keywords: mushroom life cycle

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Legend: Ectomycorrhizae
Keywords: ectomycorrhizae

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Legend: Life Cycle of Puccinia Graminis
Keywords: Puccinia graminis life cycle

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Legend: Puccinia Pathway
Keywords: Puccinia graminis

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Legend: Dutch Elm Disease
Keywords: Dutch elm disease

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Legend: The Genus Amanita
Keywords: Amanita

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Legend: Coccidioides Immitis
Keywords: coccidioides immitis

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Legend: Asexual and Sexual reproduction of Rhizopus Stolonifer
Keywords: sexual, asexual reproduction

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Legend: Sexual Life Cycle of an Ascomycete
Keywords: ascomycete sexual life cycle

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Legend: Sexual Life Cycle of a Mushroom
Keywords: mushroom sexual life cycle

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Legend: Clamp Connections Common in Basidiomycetes
Keywords: clamp connections

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Legend: Release of Sporangia of Pilobolus
Keywords: sporangia

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Legend: Cladistic Analysis of Fungi
Keywords: fungi, cladogram

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Legend: Chytrids
Keyword: chytrids

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Legend: Coenocytic Hyphae of a Water Mold
Keyword: coenocytic hyphae

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Water Mold Saprolegnia
Keyword: saprolegnia life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycles of the Black Bread Mold Rhizopus
Keyword: Rhizopus life cycle

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Legend: The Dung Fungus Pilobolus
Keyword: pilobolus

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Legend: How a Yeast Cell Reproduces Asexually by Budding
Keyword: budding

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Sac Fungus
Keyword: sac fungus life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Typical Mushroom
Keyword: mushroom life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Black Stem Rust of Wheat

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Legend: These Stereum ostrea (Basidiomycota:oyster shell bracket) basidiocarps produce basidia on the under surface of the cap rather than in pores or on gills
Keywords: Basidiomycota, bracket fungus, basidiocarp, fungi, basidiomycete

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Legend: Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) is an edible and tasty bracket fungus producing basidia on gills which line the lower surface
Keywords: fungi, Basidiomycota, bracket fungus, gills, basidiomycete

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Legend: This jelly fungus, Tremella mesenterica, produces a jelly-like basidiocarp
Keywords: fungi, Basidomycota, jelly fungus, basidiomycete

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Legend: Cyathus species are called bird's nest fungi because they produce egg-like peridioles containing basidiospores inside a nest-like cup
Keywords: fungi, Basidiomycota, bird's nest fungus, basidiocarp, basidiomycete, peridiole

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Legend: Scleroderma and other puff balls belong in the Basidiomycota
Keywords: puff balls, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, basidiocarp, fungi

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Legend: Basidiocarps of many bracket fungi like this polypore may form rosettes if growing from subsurface rotting wood
Keywords: polypore, bracket fungus, Basidiomycota, basidiomycete, basidiocarp, fungi

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Legend: Mycena species are wood rotting basidiomycetes that often produce myriads of small gilled basidiocarps on the surface of rotting logs
Keywords: basidiomycetes, basidiocarps, Basidiomycota, gills, wood rotting fungi

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Legend: These asexual sporangia of Aspergillus, a deuteromycete, produce thousands of mitospores called conidia
Keywords: mitospores, conidia, deuteromycete, Deuteromycota, fungi imperfecti, conidiophore, sporangium

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Legend: Rhizopus (bread mold) filaments of different sexual strains conjugate to form zygospores
Keywords: conjugation, Zygomycota, zygomycetes, zygospores, fungi

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Legend: The bread mold, Rhizopus, reproduces asexually by producing mitospores in sporangia
Keywords: sporangia, mitospores, Zygomycota, asexual reproduction, zygomycetes, fungi

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Legend: Morels, like this Morchella species, produce ascocarps highly prized for their flavor and texture
Keywords: ascomycetes, Ascomycota, morel, ascocarp, apothecium, fungi

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Legend: Chanterelles, like these Cantharellus basidiocarps, are quite edible and delicious
Keywords: basidiomycetes, fungi, basidiocarps, Basidiomycota, chanterelle

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Legend: Russula emetica, a common gilled basidiomycete, is inedible
Keywords: basidiomycete, Basidiomycota, gills, basidiocarp, fungi

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Legend: Saccharomyces yeasts are unicellular ascomycetes that produce ascospores inside their cell wall
Keywords: ascomycetes, ascospores, yeasts, fungi, Ascomycota

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Legend: Peziza is an ascomycete that produces a cup-shaped apothecium
Keywords: ascomycete, ascocarp, apothecium, Ascomycota, fungi

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Legend: Peziza apothecium, l.s., to show asci and ascospores in the hymenial layer
Keywords: ascomycete, fungi, Ascoomycota, apothecium, ascocarp, hymenial layer, asci, ascus, ascospores, paraphyses

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Legend: Penicillium producing conidia, growing on agar in a petri dish
Keywords: ascomycete, deuteromycete, conidia, mitospores, Ascomycota, deuteromycota, fungi, penicillin

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Legend: The slime mold, Lycogala, beginning to form fruiting bodies
Keywords: slime mold, fungi, Myxomycota, plasmodium, fruiting body

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Legend: This powdery mildew, Uncinula, infects grape leaves and fruit, producing both conidia and the cleistothecia seen here
Keywords: cleistothecia, powdery mildew, ascomycete, ascocarp, fungi, Ascomycota

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Legend: The ascomycete, Sordaria, produces asci in a perithecium
Keywords: perithecium, ascomycete, Ascomycota, asci, ascus, ascocarp, fungi

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Legend: Crustose lichens are an important first step in geologic succession from bare rock
Keywords: crustose lichens, Ascomycota, symbiosis, fungi, succession

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Legend: Apothecia can be clearly seen on this foliose lichen
Keywords: apothecia, Ascomycota, foliose lichen, ascomycetes, ascocarp, succession, symbiosis, fungi

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Legend: Fruticose lichens often grow as epiphytes on shrubs and trees
Keywords: fruticose lichen, Ascomycota, ascomycete, fungi, epiphyte, ascocarp, apothecium, symbiosis

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Legend: Physcia apothecium with algal symbiont
Keywords: lichen, fungi, symbiosis, apothecium, ascocarp, Ascomycota, ascomycete, algae

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Legend: Puccinia graminis (wheat rust) uredia on wheat (left), Gymnosporangium rust on mayhaw (right)
Keywords: rusts, fungi, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, uredia, heteroecious

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Legend: Pycnia and aecia of Puccinia graminis (Basidiomycota:wheat rust) on Mahonia (Berberidaceae:barberry) leaf, x.s.
Keywords: rusts, fungi, heteroecious, Basidiomycota, basidiomycete, aecia, pycnia, spermogonia, spermatia, aeciospores

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Legend: Uredia (left) and telia (right) of Puccinia graminis (Basidiomycota:wheat rust) on wheat leaf, x.s.
Keywords: rusts, fungi, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, uredia, uredospores, telia, teliospores, heteroecious

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Legend: Coprinus (Basidiomycota) basidiocarps are often called "inky caps" because they turn black and melt away as they age
Keywords: basidiocarp, basidiomycetes, Basidiomycota, gills, fungi

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Legend: Coprinus (Basidiomycota:inky cap) pileus, x.s., to show hymenial layer and basidiospores
Keywords: basidiocarp, basidiomycetes, gills, hymenial layer, basidia, basidiospores

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Legend: Boletus (Basidiomycota) and other polypores produce basidia in pores on the underside of their basidiocarps
Keywords: pores, basidiocarps, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, basidia, basidiospores, fungi

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Legend: These "moose-ears" are the basidiocarps of the jelly fungus, Auricularia auricula
Keywords: basidiocarps, fungi, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, jelly fungi

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Legend: Aethalia of Lycogala, a plasmodial slime mold (Myxomycota)
Keywords: sporangium, aethalia, slime mold, Myxomycota, myxomycete

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Legend: Sporangia of a plasmodial slime mold (Myxomycota)
Keywords: sporangium, plasmodium, slime mold, fungi, Mysomycota, myxomycete

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Legend: Plasmodium of Physarum, sect
Keywords: slime mold, plasmodium, myxomycete, Myxomycota

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Legend: Many of the coral and tooth fungi produce highly-branched basidiocarps
Keywords: coral fungus, basidiocarp, fungi, Basidiomycota, basisiomycete

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Legend: The gilled genus Amanita (Basidiomycota) contains a few edible species but also includes several deadly species
Keywords: poisonous mushrooms, fungi, basidiocarps, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes

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Legend: Taphrina deformans (Ascomycota: peach leaf curl) is related to the yeasts and bears "naked" asci on the surface of infected leaves
Keywords: yeasts, fungi, asci, ascus, ascospores, Ascomycota, ascomycetes

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Legend: Saprolegnia (Oomycota:water mold) to show Oogonia, sect
Keywords: Oomycota, oomycetes, fungi, water mold, oogonia

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Legend: Arcyria (Myxomycota) sporangium and capillitium, w.m.
Keywords: slime mold, fungi, capillitium, myxomycete, Myxomycota, sporangium

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Legend: Erisiphe graminis (Ascomycota:powdery mildew of cerealcrops) conidia (left) and cleistothecia (right)
Keywords: powdery mildew, ascomycetes, Ascomycota, cleistothecia, ascocarps, asci, ascospores, conidia

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Legend: Cortinarius (Basidiomycota) basidiocarps, showing gills and remnants of the inner veil
Keywords: basidiocarps, Basidiomycota, basidiomycetes, inner veil, gills, fungi

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Legend: Dinoflagellates
Keywords: dinoflagellates

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Legend: Three Types of Life Cycles in Algae
Keywords: algae life cycles

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Legend: Gametes of Algae
Keywords: algae gametes

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Legend: Euglena
Keywords: Euglena

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Legend: Relationship of Green Algae and Plants
Keywords: green algae, plants, cladogram

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Legend: Stages in Sexual Reproduction in Chlamydomonas
Keywords: chlamydomonas sexual reproduction

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Legend: Tetracystis
Keywords: tetracystis

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Legend: Life Cycle of Cladophora
Keywords: cladophora life cycle

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Legend: Phylogenetic Relationships of the Five classes of Green Algae
Keywords: green algae, cladogram

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Legend: Motile Cells of Brown Algae
Keywords: brown algae

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Legend: Life Cycle of Ectocarpus
Keywords: ectocarpus life cycle

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Legend: Conceptacles of Fucus
Keywords: fucus

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Legend: Life Cycle of Polysiphonia
Keywords: polysiphonia life cycle

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Legend: Cell Division in Diatoms
Keywords: diatoms

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Legend: Evolution of the Algae (1)
Keywords: algae cladogram

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Legend: Evolution of the Algae (2)
Keywords: algae cladogram

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Legend: Chrysophyta
Keyword: chrysophyta

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Legend: Statospores
Keyword: statospores

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Legend: Dinoflagellates
Keyword: Dinoflagellates

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Legend: Euglena
Keyword: Euglena

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Legend: Chlamydomonas
Keyword: chlamydomonas

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Legend: Sexual Life Cycle of Chlamydomonas
Keyword: chlamydomonas sexual life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Ulothrix
Keyword: Ulothrix life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Oedogonium
Keyword: Oedogonium life cycle

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Legend: Parts of the Brown Alga Nereocystis a Kelp
Keyword: nereocystis

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Common Rockweed, Fucus
Keyword: Fucus life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Red Alga Polysiphonia

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Legend: Ulothrix (Chlorophyta) with chloroplasts and sporangia
Keywords: Chlorophyta, tetrasporine line, chloroplasts, sporangia, mitospores, algae, filamentous

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Legend: Drapernaldia (Chlorophyta), a derived, heterotrichous, tetrasporine green alga
Keywords: Chlorophyta, tetrasporine line, heterotrichy, algae

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Legend: Hydrodictyon (Chlorophyta), a coenocytic, siphonous green alga
Keywords: Chlorophyta, siphonous line, algae, coenocytic, multinucleate

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Legend: Volvox (Chlorophyta), a complex, colonial, volvocine green alga
Keywords: Chlorophyta, volvocine line, algae, colonial

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Legend: Pandorina (Chlorophyta), a relatively simple, colonial, volvocine green alga
Keywords: Chlorophyta, volvocine line, algae, colonial

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Legend: Gonium (Chlorophyta), another simple volvocine green alga
Keywords: Chlorophyta, volvocine line, algae, colonial

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Legend: Oedogonium (Chlorophyta), a tetrasporine green alga with dwarf antheridial filament attached near an oogonium
Keywords: heterothallic, Chlorophyta, algae, tetrasporine line, oogonium, antheridium, filamentous

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Legend: Spirogyra (Chlorophyta) vegetative filaments (left) and conjugating filaments (right)
Keywords: Chlorophyta, tetrasporine line, conjugation, zygotes, algae, filamentous

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Legend: Chara (Charophyta) with oogonia and antheridia
Keywords: Charophyta, algae, oogonia, antheridia

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Legend: Oogonium and antheridium of Chara (Charophyta), l.s.
Keywords: Charophyta, algae, oogonium, antheridium

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Legend: Ulva (Chlorophyta) to show parenchymatous growth pattern
Keywords: Chlorophyta, tetrasporine line, parenchymatous growth, algae

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Legend: Unilocular and plurilocular sporangia of Ectocarpus (Phaeophyta)
Keywords: unilocular sporangia, plurilocular sporangia, Phaeophyta, algae

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Legend: Macrocystis (Phaeophyta) sporophyte, Monterey Bay, California
Keywords: Phaeophyta, sporophyte, algae, kelp

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Legend: Monoecious conceptacle of Fucus (Phaeophyta) with antheridia and oogonia
Keywords: Phaeophyta, oogonia, antheridia, conceptacle, kelp

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Legend: Corallina (Rhodophyta), a lime encrusted red alga
Keywords: Rhodophyta, lime, algae, reef formation

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Legend: Polysiphonia (Rhodophyta) gametophyte with antheridia
Keywords: Rhodophyta, gametophyte, antheridia, algae

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Legend: Polysiphonia (Rhodophyta) carposporophytes (carpogonia) with carpospores on gametophyte filaments
Keywords: Rhodophyta, carpospores, carposporophyte, carpogonia, algae

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Legend: Polysiphonia (Rhodophyta) tetrasporophyte filaments with tetraspores
Keywords: Rhodophyta, algae, tetrasporophyte, tetraspores, meiospores

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Legend: Fucus (Phaeophyta) growing on intertidal rocks near Bar Harbor, Maine
Keywords: Phaeophyta, algae, intertidal zone, kelp

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Legend: Fucus (Phaeophyta) sporophyte, showing receptacles dotted with conceptacles
Keywords: receptacles, conceptacles, sporophyte, kelp, Phaeophyta, algae

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Legend: Mixed diatoms (Chrysophyta:Bacillariophyceae)
Keywords: Chrysophyta, diatoms, bacillariophyceae, algae, pennate

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Legend: Ceratium (Pyrrhophyta), an armored dinoflagellate
Keywords: Pyrrhophyta, dinoflagellate, algae

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Legend: Vaucheria (Chrysophyta:Xanthophyceae), a yellow-green alga with antheridia and oogonia
Keywords: Chrysophyta, Xanthophyceae, algae, antheridia, oogonia

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Legend: Euglena (Euglenophyta)
Keywords: Euglenophyta, algae

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Legend: Phacus (Euglenophyta)
Keywords: Euglenophyta, algae

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Legend: Four centric and one pennate diatom
Keywords: Chrysophyta, Bacillariophyceae, diatoms, Pennales, Centrales, pennate, centric

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Legend: Red snow, seen here near Beartooth summit in Wyoming, is caused by Chlamydomonas, a unicellular green alga (Chlorophyta)
Keywords: red snow, alpine tundra, algae, Chlorophyta

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Legend: General Life Cycle of a Moss
Keywords: moss life cycle

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Legend: Bryum Capillare
Keywords: Bryum capillare moss

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Legend: Structure of Mosses
Keywords: moss

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Legend: Life Cycle of Marchantia
Keywords: marchantia life cycle

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Legend: Anthoceros, a Hornwort
Keywords: anthoceros, hornwort

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Legend: Common Ancestry of Green Algae, Bryophytes, and Vascular Plants
Keywords: green algae, bryophytes, vascular plant cladogram

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Legend: Cladistic Analysis of Ribosomal RNA Sequences
Keywords: bryophytes, cladogram

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Legend: Marchantia Thallus
Keyword: Marchantia thallus

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Thalloid Liverwort Marchantia
Keyword: Marchantia thallus life cycke

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Legend: Sporophyte of Marchantia
Keyword: Marchantia sporophyte

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Legend: Hornwort Sporophyte
Keyword: hornwort sporophyte

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Legend: A Portion of a Peat Moss (Sphagnum) Leaf
Keyword: sphagnum leaf

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Moss
Keyword: moss life cycle

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Legend: Anthoceros (Bryophyta:hornworts) gametophyte with elongate sporophytes
Keywords: Bryophyta, Anthocerotae, hornworts, gametophyte, sporophyte

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Legend: Anthoceros (Bryophyta:hornworts) gametophyte with emerging sorophyte, w.m.
Keywords: Bryophyta, Anthocerotae, gametophyte, sporophyte, hornworts, foot, intercalary meristem

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Legend: Anthoceros (Bryophyta:hornworts) sporophyte, l.s.
Keywords: Bryophyta, Anthocerotae, hornworts, sporophyte, meiospores

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) gametophyte with gemmae cups
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverwort, gemmae cups, gemmae, asexual reproduction, vegetative propagation

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) gametophyte with antheridial heads on short antheridiophores
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverworts, gametophyte, antheridial heads

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) antheridial head, l.s., with antheridia
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverworts, antheridial head, antheridia, gametophyte

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) gametophytes with archegoniophores and emerging sporophytes
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, gametophyte, liverworts, archegoniophores, archegonial heads, sporophytes

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) archegonial head, l.s., with archegonium and young developing sporophytes
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverworts, archegonial head, archegonium, sporophytes, gametophyte

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) archegonium, l.s., with embryo sporophyte
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverworts, archegonium, embryo sporophyte

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Legend: Moss (Bryophyta) gametophyte with protonema, bulbils, and young "leafy shoot"
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, gametophyte, protonema, bulbils

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Legend: Polytrichum (Bryophyta:moss) gametophyte
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, gametophyte

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Legend: Moss gametophytes and sporophytes
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, gametophyte, sporophyte, seta, capsule

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Legend: Polytrichum (Bryophyta:moss) gametophytes with antheridial and archegonial heads
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, gametophytes, antheridial heads, archegonial heads

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Legend: Moss (Bryophyta) archegonial head, l.s., showing the venter and neck base of an archegonium
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, archegonial head, archegonium, venter, neck, egg, ventral canal cell, paraphyses, perigonial leaves

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Legend: Moss (Bryophyta) antheridial head, l.s.
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, antheridial head, antheridia, paraphyses, perichaetal leaves

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Legend: Moss capsule, l.s.
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, capsule, sporangium, meiospores, seta

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverwort) gametophyte thallus, x.s., with pore
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, thallus, pore, rhizoids

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Legend: Marchantia (Bryophyta:liverworts) gemmae cup, l.s., with gemmae
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverworts, gemmae cup, gemmae, asexual reproduction, vegetative propagation

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Legend: Sphagnum (Bryophyta:sphagnum moss) gametophyte
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, gametophyte, sphagnum moss, peat

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Legend: Sphagnum (Bryophyta:sphagnum moss) thallose protonema
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, sphagnum moss, thallose protonema

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Legend: Riccia (Bryophyte: liverwort) gametophyte with sporophytes
Keywords: Bryophyta, Hepaticae, liverwort, thallus, gametophyte, sporophyte

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Legend: Polytrichum (Bryophyta:moss) sporophytes with calyptra
Keywords: Bryophyta, Musci, moss, sporophytes, calyptra

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Legend: Sphagnum (Bryophyta:sphagnum moss) bog on Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada
Keywords: vegetation, sphagnum bog, Bryophyta, Musci, moss, succession

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Legend: Generalized Life Cycle of Seedless Vascular Plants
Keywords: vascular plants life cycle

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Legend: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Views of a Leaf Gap
Keywords: leaf gap

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Legend: Possible Pathways For the Evolution of Leaves From Branches
Keywords: evolution leaves branches

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Legend: Life Cycle of Psilotum
Keywords: psilotum life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Allomyces Arbusculus
Keywords: allomyces arbusculus life cycle

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Legend: Sporophyll of Lycopdium, a Club Moss
Keywords: lycopodium

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Legend: Life Cycle of Lycopodium
Keywords: lycopodium life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of Selaginella
Keywords: selaginella life cycle

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Legend: Horsetails
Keywords: horsetails

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Legend: Longitudinal View of the Vascular Tissue of Equisetum
Keywords: equisetum

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Legend: Life Cycle of Equisetum
Keywords: equisetum life cycle

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Legend: Equisetum Stem With a Strobilus and a Sporangiophore
Keywords: Equisetum sporangiophore

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Legend: Spores of Equisetum and Elaters
Keywords: equisetum spores, elaters

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Legend: Emergent Sporophyte of Equisetum
Keywords: equisetum sporophyte

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Fern Polypodium
Keywords: polypodium fern life cycle

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Legend: Young Fern Sporophyte Growing Out of Its Gametophyte Parent
Keywords: sporophyte

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Legend: Thelypteris Normalis Gametophytes
Keywords: thelypteris normalis gametophyte

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Legend: Reconstruction of the Genus Lepidodendron
Keywords: lepidodendron

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Legend: Exarch and Endarch Xylem Development
Keywords: exarch, endarch xylem

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Legend: Rhynia Gwynne-Vaughanii
Keywords: rhynia gwynne-vaughanii gametophyte

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Legend: Cladogram of Land Plants
Keywords: land plants, cladogram

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Legend: Life Cycle of Psilotum
Keyword: Psilotum life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Ground Pine Lycopodium
Keyword: Lycopodium life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of the Spike Moss Selaginella
Keyword: Selaginella life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Quillwort (Isoetes)
Keyword: Isoetes life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Horsetail (Equisetum)
Keyword: Equisetum life cycle

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Legend: Horsetail spores
Keyword: horsetail spores

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Fern
Keyword: fern life cycle

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Legend: Pinnae of Fern Fronds, Showing Some Types of Arrangements of Sporangia
Keyword: fern frond pinnae

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Legend: Release of Spores from a Fern Sporangium
Keyword: fern sporangium

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Legend: Ancient Prefern
Keyword: preferns

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Legend: Polystichum (Pterophyta:sword fern) sporophyte
Keywords: fern, sporophyte, Pterophyta, seedless vascular plant

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Legend: Polystichum (Pterophyta:sword fern) abaxial leaf surface with indusiate sori
Keywords: fern, Pterophyta, sporophyte, abaxial sori, sorus, indusia

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Legend: Polypodium (Pterophyta:resurrection fern) abaxial leaf surface with exindusiate sori
Keywords: Pterophyta, fern, abaxial sori, sorus, sporangia, leptosporangia

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Legend: Lycopodium (Lycopodophyta:ground pine) sporophytes with strobili
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, ground pines, microphylls, sporophylls, strobilus, seedless vascular plant, sporophyte

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Legend: Lycopodium (Lycopodophyta) stem, x.s., showing plectostele
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, stem, protostele, plectostele, xylem, phloem, trabeculae

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Legend: Lycopodium (Lycopodophyta) strobilus, l.s.
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, strobilus, sporophyll, meiospores, spores, sporangium

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Legend: Lycopodium alpinum (Lycopodophyta: club moss) sporophyte
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, strobilus, sporophyte, seedless vascular plant

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Legend: Psilotum nudum (Psilotophyta:whisk fern) sporophyte
Keywords: Psilotophyta, whisk fern, sporophyte, isotomous branching, dichotomous branching, synangia, seedless vascular plant

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Legend: Psilotum nudum (Psilotophyta:whisk fern) sporophyte with synangia
Keywords: Psilotophyta, whisk fern, synangia, sporangia, dichotomous branching, seedless vascular plant, sporophyte

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Legend: Psilotum (Psilotophyta:whisk fern) stem, x.s.
Keywords: Psilotophyta, whisk fern, stem, protostele, sporophyte

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Legend: Psilotum (Psilotophyta:whisk fern) young stem and synangium, x.s.
Keywords: Psilotophyta, whisk fern, stem, synangium, sporophyte, sporangia, meiospores

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Legend: Tmesipteris (Psilotophyta) synangium, l.s.
Keywords: Psilotophyta, synangium, sporopyte, seedless vascular plant, sporanagia, meiospores

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Legend: Selaginella (Lycopodophyta:shining club moss) strobilus, l.s.
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, shining club moss, strobilus, heterospory, megaspores, microspores, megasporophylls, microsporophylls, megasporangia, microsporangia

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Legend: Selaginella (Lycopodophyta:shining club moss) sporophyte
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, shining club moss, sporophyte, anisophylly, microphylls, rhizophores

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Legend: Selaginella (Lycopodophyta:shining club moss) stem, x.s.
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, shining club moss, trabeculae, protostele, plectostele, stem

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Legend: Selaginella (Lycopodophyta:shining club moss) megagametophyte with young emerging sporophyte
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, shining club moss, gametophyte, heterospory, endosporic, sporophyte, megagametophyte, microgametophytes

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Legend: Lycopodium (Lycopodophyta) gemma, l.s.
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, gemma, asexual reproduction, vegetative propagation

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) gametophyte with antheridia
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, gametophyte, antheridia

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) gametophyte with embryo sporophyte
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, gametophyte, embryo sporophyte

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) strobilus
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, sporophyte, strobilus, sporangiophores, microphylls

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Legend: Equisetum arvense (Equisetophyta: horsetails), vegetative habit
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, sporophyte, seedless vascular plants, lateral branches, whorled branches

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) meiospores with elaters
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, spores, meiospores, elaters

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) stem, x.s.
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, stem, vallecular canal, carinal canal, silica

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Legend: Isoetes (Lycopodophyta:quillworts) sporophyte habit
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, quillworts, microphylls, sporophyte, vernal pool, seedless vascular plant

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Legend: Equisetum arvense (Equisetophyta:horsetails) sporophyte habit with fertile and sterile stems
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, sterile stems, fertile stems, strobilus, sporophyte, seedless vascular plant

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Legend: Isoetes (Lycopodophyta:quillworts) stem, l.s.
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, quillworts, stem, root traces, microphyll traces

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Legend: Isoetes (Lycopodophyta:quillworts) megasporophyll (left) and microsporophyll (right)
Keywords: Lycopodophyta, quillworts, heterospory, sporophylls, microsporophyll, megasporophyll, microspores, megaspores

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Legend: Circinate vernation in a fern frond (Pterophyta:Filicales)
Keywords: fern, Pterophyta, megaphyll, circinate vernation

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Legend: Azolla (Pterophyta:Salviniales), a heterosporous, leptosporangiate water fern
Keywords: Pterophyta, heterospory, water fern, Salviniales, kariba weed

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Legend: Cyathea (Pterophyta:Cyatheaceae) tree ferns in a southern Mexico cloud forest
Keywords: Pterophyta, tree ferns, vegetation, montane cloud forest, sporophyte, seedless vascular plants

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Legend: Polystichum (Pterophyta:sword fern) sorus, l.s.
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, sori, sorus, indusium, leptosporangia

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Legend: Polypodium (Pterophyta:resurrection fern) sorus, l.s.
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, sori, sorus, leptosporangia

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Legend: Adiantum (Pterophyta:maidenhair fern) leaf, x.s., with sorus, l.s.
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, sori, sorus, leptosporangia, false indusium

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Legend: Fern (Pterophyta:Filicales) prothallus with rhizoids
Keywords: Pterophyta, gametophyte, ferns, rhizoids, prothallus

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Legend: Fern (Pterophyta:Filicales) prothallus, w.m., with rhizoids, archegonia, and a few antheridia
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, prothallus, gametophyte, antheridia, archegonia, rhizoids

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Legend: Fern (Pterophyta:Filicales) prothallus with antheridia
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, prothallus, gametophyte, antheridia, rhizoids

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Legend: Fern (Pterophyta:Filicales) prothallus with young emerging sporophyte
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, prothallus, gametophyte, sporophyte

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horsetails) stem, x.s.
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, sporophyte, stem, vallecular canal, carinal canal, central canal

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Legend: Polypodium (Pterophyta:resurrection fern) rhizome, x.s.
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, stem, rhizome, dictyostele, siphonostele, meristeles

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Legend: Pteridium aquilinum (Pterophyta:bracken fern) rhizome, x.s.
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, polycyclic dictyostele, siphonostele, meristele, sclerenchyma

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Legend: Fern prothallus, x.s., with archegonia
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, archegonium, egg, ventral canal cell, neck canal cells, venter, neck, prothallus, gametophyte

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Legend: Equisetum (Equisetophyta:horse tails) strobilus, x.s.
Keywords: Equisetophyta, horsetails, strobilus, sporangiophores, sporangia, meiospores

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Legend: Adiantum (Pterophyta: maidenhair fern) abaxial leaf surface to show false indusia and dichotomous venation
Keywords: Pterophyta, ferns, false indusia, dichotomous venation, sori, sorus

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Legend: Botrychium (Pterophyta: Ophioglossales: grape fern) gametophyte with endophytic fungus and anatheridial ridge
Keywords: Pterophyta, Ophioglossales, gametophyte, endophytic fungus, antheridial ridge

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Legend: Botrychium (Pterophyta:Ophioglossales) is a eusporangiate fern
Keywords: Pterophyta, Ophioglossales, eusporangia

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Legend: Evolution of Seeds
Keywords: seeds

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Legend: Longitudinal Section Through an Ovule of Pine (Pinus)
Keywords: pine pinus avule

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Legend: Progymnosperms
Keywords: progymnosperms

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Legend: Emplectopteris
Keywords: emplectopteris, seed ferns

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Legend: Reproductive Structures of Representative Seed Ferns
Keywords: seed ferns, lyginopteris, callistophyton

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Legend: Cycadeoidea
Keywords: cycadeoidea

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Legend: Cycadeoid Strobilus
Keywords: cycadeoid strobilus

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Legend: Reproductive Structures of the Cordaitales and Voltziales
Keywords: cordaitales, voltziales

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Legend: Phylogenetic Relationships Among Seed Plants
Keywords: seed plants cladogram

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Legend: Cladogram of Living Seed Plants
Keywords: seed plants cladogram

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Legend: Exposed Gymnosperm Seeds and Enclosed Angiosperm Seeds
Keyword: seeds

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Pine
Keyword: pine life cycle

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Legend: Pinus contorta (Pinaceae:beach pine) with pollen-shedding microsporangiate cones and receptive ovulate cones, life cycle, monoecious
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, reproduction, pollen, ovulate cones, microsporangiate cones, strobili, pine

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) pollen, w.m.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, pollen, microgametophyte

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Legend: Pinus contorta (Pinaceae: beach pine) receptive ovulate cone (right), mature microsporangiate cone (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, ovulate cone, female cone, microsporangiate cone, male cone, life cycle, strobili

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Legend: Pinus contorta (Pinaceae:beach pine) first year ovulate cone (left) and open ovulate cone after the second year (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, ovulate cone, life cycle, strobili

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Legend: Pinus (Pinophyta:pine) ovule with megasporocyte and pollen grains in micropyle, l.s.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, ovule, micropyle, pollen, microgametophyte, nucellus, integument, megasporocyte, life cycle

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) ovule with free nuclear megagametophyte, l.s.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, ovule, free nuclear megagametophyte, life cycle

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) archegonium with neck cells, l.s.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, life cycle

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pinus) ovule with mature megagametophyte and pollen tubes in nucellus, l.s.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, ovule, integuments, pollen tubes, microgametophyte, archegonium, megagametophyte, nucellus, life cycle

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) early embryonic organization
Keywords: gymnosperms, early embryo, life cycle, Pinophyta

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) mature embryo in seed, l.s.
Keywords: seed, ovule, gymnosperms, Pinophyta, megagametophyte, embryo, integument

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Legend: Pinus (Pinaceae:pine) diploxylon leaf, x.s.
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, leaf, resin canal, diploxylon, vein, transfusion tissue

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Legend: Ephedra californica (Gnetophyta:Mormon tea) in the Mohave Valley, California
Keywords: gymnosperms, Gnetophyta, vegetation, cold desert scrub

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Legend: Ephedra (Gnetophyta:Mormon tea) ovulate cones
Keywords: gymnosperms, Gnetophyta, ovulate cones, pollination tube, megagametophyte, ovules, strobili

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Legend: Ephedra (Gnetophyta:Mormon tea) microsporangiate cones
Keywords: gymnosperms, Gnetophyta, microsporangiate cones, microsporangia, sporangiophores, strobili

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Legend: Welwitschia (Gnetophyta) young microsporangiate plant
Keywords: gymnosperms, Gnetophyta, dioecious, microsporangiate cones, strobili

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Legend: Cycas revoluta (Cycadophyta:sago palm) with megasporangiate strobilus
Keywords: gymnosperms, Cycadophyta, female, megasporangiate cone, strobilus, pinnate compound leaves, cycad

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Legend: Zamia (Cycadophyta:cycad) microsporangiate strobilus (left) and megasporangiate strobilus (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Cycadophyta, microsporangiate cones, megasporangiate cones, strobili, male, female, cycad

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Legend: Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgophyta:maidenhair tree) habit (left) and ovule on short shoot (right)
Keywords: Ginkgophyta, gymnosperms, ovule, dichotomous venation, short shoots, leaf, ginkgo

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Legend: Picea glauca (Pinaceae:blue spruce) habit (left) and female cones (right)
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, spruce, megasporangiate strobili, female cones

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Legend: Juniperus (Cupressaceae:juniper) habit (left) and megasporangiate cones (right)
Keywords: Pinophyta, juniper, gymnosperms, megasporangiate strobili, female cones, decussate phyllotaxy

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Legend: Podocarpus (Podocarpaceae) habit in SouthAfrican temperate forest (left), ovules subtended by fleshy collars (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, podocarpus, ovules, vegetation, temperate mesic forest

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Legend: Thuja plicata (Cupressaceae:arbor vitae) habit (left), flattened branches with megasporangiate cones (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, arbor vitae, megasporangiate strobili, ovulate cones

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Legend: Cupressus macnabiana (Cupressaceae:cypress) habit in riparian forest (left), megasporangiate strobili (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, riparian forest, vegetation, cypress, megasporangiate strobili, female cones

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Legend: Taxodium distichum (Taxodiaceae:bald cypress), in November in a Louisiana Cypress swamp (left), branchlets and megasporangiate cones in September (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, bald cypress, megasporangiate strobili, ovulate cones, deciduous branchlets, cypress swamp, vegetation

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Legend: Sequoiadendron giganteum (Taxodiaceae:big trees) habit in Sequoia National Park, megasporangiate cone (right)
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, big trees, giant redwoods, megasporangiate cone, ovulate cone

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Legend: Pinus lambertiana (Pinaceae:sugar pine) in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains is a white or soft pine with the longest ovulate cones of any pine
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, white pines, haploxylon, soft pines, ovulate cones, megasporangiate strobili

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Legend: Pinus attenuata (Pinaceae: knobcone pine) only opens its cones after a fire
Keywords: gymnosperms, Pinophyta, closed-cone pine forest, vegetation, fire, megasporangiate strobili, ovulate cones

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Legend: Abies magnifica (Pinaceae:fir) with erect ovulate cones
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, firs, ovulate cones, megasporangiate strobili

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Legend: Larix (Pinaceae:larch) trees and ovulate cones in northeastern Washington
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, ovulate cones, megasporangiate cones, deciduous, long shoots, short shoots, fascicles

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Legend: Pinus cembroides (Pinaceae:pinyon pine) habit in a New Mexico pinyon-juniper woodland
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, pinyon pine, pinyon-juniper woodland, vegetation

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Legend: Pinus cembroides (Pinaceae:pinyon pine) ovulate cones
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, pinyonpine, ovulate cone, megasporangiate strobilus

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Legend: Sequoia sempervirens (Taxodiaceae:coast redwoods) can reach heights of over 350 feet, making them the tallest trees in the world
Keywords: Pinophyta, gymnosperms, redwoods, coastal redwood forest, vegetation, stump sprouting, cloning

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Legend: Generalized Life Cycle of Flowering Plants
Keywords: flowering plants life cycle

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Legend: Flower Types
Keywords: flowers, flower types

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Legend: Sectioned Caytonia Cupule
Keywords: caytonia cupule

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Legend: Positions of the Earth's Landmasses in the Early Triassic Period
Keywords: triassic landmasses

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Legend: Sunflower Inflorescence
Keywords: sunflower inflorescence

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Legend: Dahlgren and Cronquist Systems of Classification
Keywords: Dahlgren, Cronquist

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Legend: Simplified Molecular Phylogeny of Flowering Plants
Keywords: flowering plant, phylogeny, cladogram

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Legend: Simplified Phylogeny of Seed Plants
Keywords: seed plants, phylogeny, cladogram

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Legend: Proposed Origin of Flowers
Keywords: flowers, seed plants

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Typical Flowering Plant (1)
Keyword: flowering plant life cycle

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Legend: Life Cycle of a Typical Flowering Plant (2)
Keyword: flowering plant life cycle

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Legend: A Mature Male Gametophyte of a Flowering Plant
Keyword: male gametophyte

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Legend: How the Embryo Sac of a Lily Develops
Keyword: embryo sac

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Legend: Primitive Flower, Magnolia (left) and Advanced Flower, Orchid (right)
Keyword: flower

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Legend: Ovaries in Cross Section
Keyword: pistil ovary

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Legend: Ovary Positions in Flowers
Keyword: ovary positions

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanism 1
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanisms 2
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanisms 3
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanism 4
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanism 5
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Pollinating Mechanisms in Orchids - Mechanism 6
Keyword: pollinating

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Legend: Parts of a Sweet Pea Flower
Keyword: sweet pea flower

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Legend: A spurge An Individual Cyathium
Keyword: spurge cyathium

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Legend: A Sectioned Petunia Flower
Keyword: petunia

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Legend: Parts of a Sunflower
Keyword: sunflower

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Legend: Grass Flowers
Keyword: grass flowers

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Legend: Lemna (Lemnaceae:duckweed), one of the smallest angiosperms, is thought to be related to monocots in the Philodendron family(Araceae)
Keywords: angiosperms, monocot, duckweed, size, diversity

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Legend: Cornus canadensis (Cornaceae) and other "flowering dogwoods" subtend an inconspicuous head of flowers with showy bracts to make a single blossom
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, showy bracts, blossom, head, inflorescence, flowers

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Legend: Saururus and other members of the Saururaceae share several characteristics with early Cretaceous angiosperm fossils
Keywords: angiosperms, evolution, Cretaceous, Koonwarra, paleoherb, fossils

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Legend: Smilacena (Liliaceae) is a monocot with leaf venation similar to that in the Koonwarra fossil, about 120 million years old
Keywords: angiosperms, evolution, fossils, paleoherb, Cretaceous, monocot, leaf venation

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Legend: Magnolia flowers fit the Besseyan idea of primitive angiosperm flowers with free, numerous, spiral parts on a convex receptacle, much like a strobilus
Keywords: angiosperms, evolution, diversity, Bessey, strobilus, primitive, apocarpous, flowers

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Legend: Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) flowers are epigynous with a caducous perianth and showy stamens. Note the pellucid glands characteristic of this family
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, epigynous, inferior, pellucid glands, showy stamens, caducous, flowers

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Legend: Rubus (Rosaceae:raspberries, blackberries, etc.) flowers are radially symmetrical with numerous, free, spiral, hypogynous parts on a convex receptacle
Keywords: angiosperms, evolution, diversity, drupelets, Bessey, radial symmetry, hypogynous, apocarpous, flowers

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Legend: Echeveria (Crassulaceae) produces separate flower parts in whorls, including five sepals, five petals, ten stamens, and five simple pistils
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, pentamerous, radial symmetry, apocarpous, choripetalous, whorled, dicot, flowers

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Legend: Tradescantia (Commelinaceae:spiderwort) produces relatively typical trimerous monocot flowers known for their "fuzzy" stamens
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, trimerous, monocot, stamens, flowers

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Legend: Nerium oleander (Apocyanceae) flowers feature a sympetalous corolla, and connivent anthers which surround an enlarged stigma
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, sympetaly, connivent stamens, radial symmetry

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Legend: Native roses like Rosa woodsii (Rosaceae) have only five petals
Keywords: angiosperms, roses, diversity, perigynous, pentamerous, radial symmetry, flowers

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Legend: A longitudinal section through this Encelia (Asteraceae:brittle bush) head reveals separate radially symmetrical disk flowers and bilaterally symmetrical ray flowers
Keywords: angiosperms, composites, diversity, ray flowers, receptacular bracts, involucral bracts, radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry, flowers

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Legend: Centropogon (Lobeliaceae) produces bilaterally symmetrical hummingbird pollinated flowers on a flagelliform inflorescence
Keywords: angiosperms, bilateral symmetry, ornithophily, diversity, hummingbird pollination, flagelliform inflorescence

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Legend: This tropical Piper (Piperaceae), related to the black pepper plant, is one of the "paleoherbs" discussed in chapter 31
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, evolution, paleoherbs, black pepper, spike, inflorescence

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Legend: Umbellularia (Lauraceae), one of Bessey's primitive Laurales, is used as a spice known as "California Bay Leaf"
Keywords: angiosperms, evolution, diversity, spice, Bessey, primitive

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Legend: Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae) flowers sport a showy petaloid corona
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, narcissus, corona, flowers

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Legend: The Biosphere
Keywords: biosphere

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Legend: The Field of Ecology
Keywords: ecology

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Legend: Components of an Ecosystem
Keywords: ecosystem

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Legend: Grazer and Detritus Food Chains
Keywords: food chains

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Legend: A Food Web in a Salt Marsh
Keywords: food web

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Legend: A Hypothetical Food Web
Keywords: food web

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Legend: Food Web Energy Requirements
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Legend: Ecological Pyramids
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Legend: The Nitrogen Cycle
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Legend: The Carbon Cycle
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Legend: The Carbon Cycle
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Legend: The Water Cycle
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Legend: A Food Web
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Legend: An Energy Pyramid of an Ecosystem
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Legend: The Nitrogen Cycle
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Legend: The Carbon Cycle
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Legend: Major Biomes of North America
Keyword: biomes

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Legend: Sublpine meadow in Glacier National Park with Erythronium (Liliaceae:glacier lilies) and Abies lasiocarpa (Pinaceae:firs)
Keywords: ecology, subalpine meadow, vegetation, gymnosperms, firs, biomes

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Legend: Bear Valley, California, in the early spring
Keywords: grassland, ecology, grazing, vegetation, biomes

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Legend: This Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae:water lily) is a hydrophyte, floating in shallow water in a pond or lake and rooted to the bottom
Keywords: angiosperms, diversity, ecology, hydrophyte, water lily, succession

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Legend: Adenostoma (Rosaceae:chamise) and other shrubs in the chaparral release allelopathic chemicals which prevent competing seedlings from germinating
Keywords: ecology, allelopathy, vegetation, biomes, chaparral, scrub

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Legend: Extrusive Serpentine rock forms pockets of soil with mineral imbalances that only certain plants can tolerate
Keywords: ecology, endemism, vegetation, edaphic factors, soil, serpentine

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Legend: This South African fynbos, physically similar to California chaparral but consisting of different species, is formed under similar environmental conditions
Keywords: ecology, climate, scrub, vegetation, chaparral, fynbos, convergence, evolution, biomes

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Legend: This mountain meadow near Loyalton, California is surrounded by coniferous forest but is maintained by saturated soil conditions
Keywords: ecology, edaphic factors, soil, meadow, grasslands, conifer forest, vegetation, succession

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Legend: Grazing by large herbivores, like these elk in Yellowstone National Park, has been a significant factor in the evolution of North America's grasslands
Keywords: ecology, vegetation, grasslands, grazing, evolution, biomes

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Legend: Natural fires have been and are still significant in the maintenance and health of many ecosystems.
Keywords: ecology, fire, vegetation, succession, biomes, grasslands, chaparral, closed-cone pine forest, prairie, steppe

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Legend: Anethum graveolens (Apiaceae:dill) and many other plants produce natural insecticides which reduce feeding by herbivorous insects.
Keywords: ecology, insecticides, herbivory, chemical ecology, secondary compounds

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Legend: Pedicularis densiflora (Scrophulariaceae:Indian Warrior) is photosynthetic but also gains nutrients by parasitizing the roots of other green plants.
Keywords: ecology, parasitism, root parasite, nutrition, hummingbird pollination, ornithophily

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Legend: This non-photosynthetic Mexican Orobanche (Orobanchaceae:broom rape) is parasitizing the green Lycium (Solanaceae) plant surrounding it
Keywords: ecology, parasitism, nutrition, root parasite

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Legend: Grass lake, south of Lake Tahoe in California is largely covered by a mat of Sphagnum (Bryophyta) thick enough to walk on
Keywords: ecology, hydrophytic succession, sphagnum bog, bryophytes, vegetation, peat

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Legend: This scene illustrates the significant natural reforestation taking place in Yellowstone National Park after devastating fires earlier this decade
Keywords: ecology, fire, vegetation, coniferous forest, secondary succession, biomes

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Legend: Epilobium angustifolium (Onagraceae:fireweed) is often an early pioneer in areas leveled by forest fires
Keywords: ecology, fire, secondary succession, pioneer species, vegetation, coniferous forest

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Legend: This scene in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas emphasizes the devastating effects clearcutting timber has on the natural environment
Keywords: ecology, forestry, clearcutting, vegetation, mixed pine-hardwood forest, vegetation, secondary succession, lumber, conservation, environment

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Legend: Acid rain has had significant negative impact on the health and vigor of fir trees in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park
Keywords: ecology, pollution, conservation, acid rain, vegetation, fir forest, environment

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Legend: This area in northwest Louisiana displays the aftermath of careless environmental practices by the petroleum industry
Keywords: ecology, environment, conservation, pollution, petroleum industry

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Legend: Atmospheric pollution from automobiles and industrial complexes like this northern Mexico mining facility are creating problems of global concern
Keywords: ecology, conservation, environment, atmospheric pollution

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Legend: Major Biomes of the World
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Legend: Altitude Affects the Distribution of Biomes
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Legend: Global Wind Patterns
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Legend: Distribution of Tundra in North America
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Legend: Distribution of Taiga in North America
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Legend: Distribution of Temperature Deciduous Forests in North America
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Legend: Distribution of Grasslands and Savannas in North America
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Legend: Distribution of the World's Deserts
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Legend: Distribution of Chaparral in North America
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Legend: The Sahel
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Legend: Rainfall Records from the Sahel
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Legend: Distribution of Mountain Forests in North America
Keywords: mountain forests

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Legend: Distribution of Tropical Rain Forests in North America
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Legend: Levels of Plant Life in the Rain Forest
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Legend: Areas of Blindness Caused by Vitamin A Deficiency
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Legend: The Food Pyramid
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Legend: Beginnings of Agriculture
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Legend: Barley-Wild Versus Domesticated
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Legend: Centers of Origins
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Legend: Annual World Crop Production Figures
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Legend: A Grain
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Legend: Evolution of Domesticated Wheat
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Legend: Zea Mays, Corn
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Legend: Hybrid Corn
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Legend: United States Corn Crop Usage
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Legend: Legumes
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Legend: The Soybean Plant (Glycine max)
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Legend: Solanum Tuberosum, Cultivated Potato
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Legend: Ipomoea Batatas, Sweet Potato
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Legend: Evolution of Modern Corn
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Legend: Artificial Selection
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Legend: Underground Aquifers
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Legend: Tillage Techniques
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Legend: Coffea Arabica
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Legend: European Explorations
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Legend: Operation of the Cotton Gin
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Legend: Linum Usitatissimum, the Flax Plant
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Legend: Potential Desert Crops
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Legend: Mandrake Root
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Legend: Rauwolfia Serpentina
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Legend: Cannabis Sativa
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Legend: Hemlock
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Legend: White Snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum)
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Legend: An Antibody or Immunoglobin Molecule
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Legend: Steps in the Wine-making Process
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Legend: Steps in the Brewing of Beer
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Legend: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Legend: Biological Magnification
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Legend: Carbon Dioxide Rise in the Atmosphere
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Legend: Carbon Dioxide and Greenhouse Gases
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Legend: Primary Succession
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Legend: Secondary Succession
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Legend: Flagform trees in the subalpine of the Snowy Range, Medicine Bows, Wyoming
Keywords: ecology, biomes, vegetation, subalpine, flagform trees

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Legend: This peaty bog soil (histosol) in arctic tundra in northern Alaska is subtended by a yearround layer of ice called permafrost
Keywords: biomes, ecology, permafrost, arctic tundra, histosol, peat, sphagnum moss, bryophytes

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Legend: Alpine blowouts and krumholz tree formations characterize this subalpine-alpine tundra zone in Wyoming's Beartooth Mountains
Keywords: biomes, alpine tundra, subalpine, blowouts, krumholz, vegetation, ecology

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Legend: The growing season is short and winter conditions are harsh in this alpine tundra zone at Carson Pass in California's Sierra Nevada
Keywords: alpine tundra, ecology, vegetation, biomes

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Legend: This arctic tundra in Alaska includes several prostrate woody species that overwinter under a thin blanket of protective snow
Keywords: arctic tundra, ecology, vegetation, biomes

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Legend: Boreal forest or taiga covers large areas of North America and Eurasia
Keywords: northern coniferous forest, boreal forest, taiga, gymnosperms, vegetation, ecology, biomes

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Legend: The taiga becomes more of a woodland than a forest in its northern regions as growing conditions become shorter and harsher
Keywords: taiga, northern conifer forest, boreal forest, permafrost, woodland, vegetation, ecology, biomes

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Legend: Pinus albicaulis (Pinaceae:whitebark pine) and other conifers may assume a krumholz form at the upper margin of their distributions and overwinter under the snow
Keywords: alpine tundra, subalpine, vegetation, ecology, krumholz, gymnosperms, biomes

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Legend: Chaparral vegetation is adapted to fire, as evidenced by this Adenostoma (Rosaceae:chamise) stump sprouting only two months after a devastating fire
Keywords: biomes, vegetation, chaparral, fire, stump sprouting, ecology, mediterranean scrub