What are the top five most produced crops?

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In what year/who invented the printing press?

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In what year/who discovered oxygen?

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In what year/who studied sap movement in plants, is known as the "father of physiology?"

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In what year/who studied a cork cell under a microscope?

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In what year/who invented the compound microscope?

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When was the Irish Potato Famine?

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When was the Renaissance/Ag revolution?

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What were the Three Sisters?

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What is the probable precursor to corn?

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When was the Black Plague?

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In what year/who had significant work with pea plants, known as "father of genetics?"

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When was the Pre-emption Act?

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When was the Morrill Act?

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What sorts of plants did Neil Ebbeson Hansen bring back from Asia?

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When is approximate growing season in WI?

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In what year was the first steam tractor invented?

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"Silent Spring" was a book written on the effects of DDT on raptor egg shells by who?

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Who created high yield corn in Mexico in the 1960's and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work?

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What is the study of growing fruit called?

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What is the study of growing vegetables called?

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morphologically similar individuals that can interbreed and produce viable offspring

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gives a cell its shape, composed of cellulose

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pectinaceous material that dissolves as a fruit ripens, adhesive

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aids in support of the cell, also made of cellulose, undergoes lignification

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process of adding complex non-CHO materials to cell walls, dissolved from wood pulp

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in what type of plants does the cytoplasm change its conformation from being mostly water to more sugars so that the plant does not freeze from the inside out?

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stacks of membrane bound cavities that make of the Golgi complex

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largest organelle, stores waste and pigment

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involved in metabolic functions

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disc-shaped bodies that preserve pigment

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contain green pigment (chlorophyll)

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contain other vibrant pigments other than green

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colorless or brown plastids that are not exposed to light, act as storage for starch or tannins

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purple, blue, red

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oranges

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yellows, browns

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young, embryonic tissue, only purpose is to divide

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tissue in older cells, differentiated, serves a specialized purpose

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three types of meristematic tissue

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T or F: dicots have many intercalary meristems, which is what allows them to grow back so quickly after being mowed down

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parts of meristematic tissue

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T or F: the subepidermal layer of the tunica of meristematic tissue can lignify

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what are the three types of permanent (ground) tissue?

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simple, undifferentiated tissue, used for starch storage, makes up bulk of apples/potatoes, alive at maturity

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at what percentage of H2O loss are apples no longer marketable?

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at what temperatures can apples be stored (except MacIntosh)?

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what percentage of air is N?

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what percentage of air is O2?

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how much of air is composed of CO2?

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an apple is an example of what kind of fruit?

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a natural growth factor emitted by climacteric fruit to ripen itself

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large type of storage for apples where pressure is decreased and the amount of oxygen is decreased

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supporting ground tissue, alive at maturity

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usually lignified ground tissue, dead at maturity, fibers have been elongated

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T or F: dermal tissues are a type of ground tissue

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What are the two types of dermal ground tissue?

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what waxy secretion from the epidermis prevents water loss?

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what structure permits gas exchange within the epidermis?

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specialized hair-like extensions of the epidermis that discourage eating of the plant tissue

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T or F: thorns are an example of trichomes

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this replaces the non-herbaceous parts of woody plants, is composed of cork cells and makes up the outer bark of mature trees

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what are the two types of vascular tissues?

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conducts water and minerals aeropetally from the roots

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Xylem is made of what two cells

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T or F: gymnosperms can contain both tracheids and vessels

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transports sugars basipetally from the leaves

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Phloem is made up of what cells

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phenomenon when roots from different plants grow so close together that their vascular systems become connected

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movement of materials to all parts of a plant via its vascular system

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T or F: bacterial wilt is very easy to cure

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what organism is the vector for bacterial wilt?

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Dutch Elm Disease and bacterial wilt are both diseases that target and impede the function of what?

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what is the first systemic herbicide that can translocate down to the rhizomes of the plant?

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when the freezing and thawing of clay soil breaks up a root system

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how long is the root system of one alfalfa plant?

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T or F: roots comprise 1/3 to 1/2 of the dry weight of a plant

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what are the two different types of roots?

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typical root of grasses, shallower with fine branching

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thick, deep root with good storage, difficult for surface water to reach it

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example of a plant with a hybrid root system?

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roots that form in a place they normally would not form, undercutting encourages growth

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lignified tissue, toughest part of the root

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"zones," or areas of root cap

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TRICHOMES that serves as extensions of the epidermis, flow to xylem and phloem

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this unpigmented, innermost single layer of cells is unique to the root

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waterproof material that encircles endodermis, serves as a barrier for water so that the root does not become oversaturated

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made of mostly parenchyma, serves as storage space in the root

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meristematic region of root, where new roots originate and push out through the cortex

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region of the root from the pericycle inwards, includes xylem and phloem

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disease in strawberries that damages the xylem within the stele of the root, causes wilt due to inability to retain moisture

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