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Title: F215 Plant Responses
Description: Simple but detailed notes, directly answering criteria on the specification for Plant Responses. Although, the OCR Biology spec has changed some topics may well be the same/similar. Please preview before purchase if interested.
Description: Simple but detailed notes, directly answering criteria on the specification for Plant Responses. Although, the OCR Biology spec has changed some topics may well be the same/similar. Please preview before purchase if interested.
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Tanisha Patel
Plant Responses
a) explain why plants need to respond to their environment in terms of the need to avoid
predation and abiotic stress;
● To cope with the changing conditions
● Maximise photosynthesis
● Avoid herbivory and grazing
● Ensure germination in suitable conditions
● To survive and reproduce
b) define the term tropism;
A directional growth response, in which the direction of the response is determined by the
direction of the external stimulus, controlled by hormones called Plant Growth Regulators,
produced by plant tissues
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Presence of auxin promotes the active transport
of H+ ions through the ATPase protein pump, into
the cellulose cell wall
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Decreasing the pH, allowing optimum conditions
for the wall loosening enzymes (Expansins) to
work
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Expansins break H+ bonds within the cellulose, so
walls become less rigid and can expand as the
cells vacuoles take in water, elongating the cell
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Shoot bends towards light source, because auxin
is transported to tip of shoot to cells in shade,
allowing cells to take up more water and elongate
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Because cells elongate more on shaded side than light side, the shoot bends towards
light source
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Apical dominance growing apical bud at shoot tip inhibits growth of lateral buds
further down
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Further away from main shoot lower concentration of auxin and can grow
Gibberellins
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Cytokinins stop leaves of dec
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Ensuring leaves are sink for phloem transport
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Senescence cause auxin production at tip of leaf to drop
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Causes increase in cellulase, digests walls of cells in abscission zone
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● Synthetic auxins used as growth stimulants when root cuttings are taken
● Synthetic auxin is used as selective weed killer
● Form of abscisic acid (not readily broken down by plants) used as antitranspirant as it
closes stomata
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Title: F215 Plant Responses
Description: Simple but detailed notes, directly answering criteria on the specification for Plant Responses. Although, the OCR Biology spec has changed some topics may well be the same/similar. Please preview before purchase if interested.
Description: Simple but detailed notes, directly answering criteria on the specification for Plant Responses. Although, the OCR Biology spec has changed some topics may well be the same/similar. Please preview before purchase if interested.