Flowering plant Essays

  • The Families of Flowering Plants

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    Asphodelaceae (Aloe Family) CLASSIFICATION Dahlgren et al. (1985) divided the Monocotyledons into several superorders of which the Liliiflorae is the largest. The order Asparagales is the largest of the five orders within Liliiflorea. One of the families within Asparagales recognized by Dahlgren and his co-workers was Asphodelaceae (Chase et al. (2000). Asphodelaceae consists of the sub-families, the Asphodeloideae and the Alooideae. The Alooideae consists of six genera of which Aloe is the largest

  • Gregor Mendel Essay

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    Plant hybridization is when you cross two plants that are genetically different in order to get a new genotype. Genetic variation is simply put as the diversity in genes. I believe that Gregor Mendel used pea plants because first of all, pea plants are very cheap plants. I also believe that Gregor Mendel used pea plants because there are so many different kinds of pea plants with different distinguishable traits. For example, pea plants come in all kinds of different

  • Janie and the Pear Tree in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Janie and the Pear Tree in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the image of a pear tree reverberates throughout the novel. The pear tree is not only a representation of Janie's life - blossoming, death, metamorphosis, and rebirth - but also the spark of curiosity that sets Janie on her quest for self-discovery. Janie is essentially "rootless" at the beginning of her life, never having known her mother or father and having been

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Analysis

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    Andrew Carpenter Picetti English, 1 9 April, 2014 Love Isn’t Perfect; Their Eyes Were Watching God Essay “Cinderella finds the perfect man and lives in a castle the rest of her life, so why can’t I?” Society uses fairytales to make children think that love is perfect, but the sad reality is that true love has flaws. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Hurston, Janie’s experiences show that true love is not like a fairytale. Throughout the novel Janie has three separate relationships, trying

  • Symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Zora Neale Hurston uses many symbols throughout her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, to represent many different things. Symbols are important in a novel because they reveal ideas and qualities beyond the literal sense of the symbol. Symbolism also helps the reader better understand the deeper meanings of the book. Zora Neale Hurston uses various symbols such as a horizon, Janie’s hair, and a pear tree in Their Eyes Were Watching God. The horizon is a powerful symbol that is recurrent throughout

  • Wormwood, or Artemisia Maritima

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    or Artemisia Maritima, is a low maintenance plant that is easy to grow. This plant is great for beginning herbologists. In the wild, sea wormwood grows along the seashore in Europe and Asia. Wormwood is a hardy plant that can tolerate drought, maritime exposures and temperatures as low as -15C. It has a sweet lavender-like smell but is very bitter to the taste. It is easy to identify from a distance by its silver-gray colour. It is a flowering plant, growing close to two metres high. The leaves

  • Bacopa Caroline Case Study

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    Bacopa Caroline is a very unpretentious, long-stemged perennial plant with bright and juicy leaves. Ideal for a beginner aquarist also thanks to the fact that it grows well both in fresh and salt water, and also multiplies well in captivity. Content: 1 Description 2 Features of the content 3 How to grow 4 Care Description Bacopa Carolina grows on the Atlantic coast of America. Has oval greenish-yellow castings, the size of which reaches 2.5 cm, which are located in pairs on a long stem. In bright

  • Short Essay On Tree Collection

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    Plant collection report Family: 1. Asteraceae The common species include daisy and sunflowers for ornamental; lettuce for crop; ragweed and thistles for weeds. Most plants of Asteraceae are herbaceous plants, but climbers, trees and shrubs do exits. most of the Asteraceae members produce taproots, but some of them also have fibrous root systems. The leaves can be alternated, opposite or whorled. The common plant characteristics of Asteraceae include having “composite” flower heads composed of many

  • Diverrsity Of Plants

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    Diverrsity of Plants Plants evolved more than 430 million years ago from multicellular green algae. By 300 million years ago, trees had evolved and formed forests, within which the diversification of vertebrates, insects, and fungi occurred. Roughly 266,000 species of plants are now living. The two major groups of plants are the bryophytes and the vascular plants; the latter group consists of nine divisions that have living members. Bryophytes and ferns require free water so that sperm can swim

  • The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter

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    different types of plants and animals; food, shelter, fuel, and timber being a few of the most common uses. There is no universally recognized precise definition for trees. They are not a distinct taxonomic group, but rather a collection of plant species that have independently evolved similar traits. The most characteristic of these traits is a wooden trunk and branches which are used as a way to tower above other plants. One of the broader definitions of trees classifies them as: “any plants with the general

  • Compare And Contrast Ferns And Autotrophytes

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    BIO 1500: Lab Ta: Shelby Pratyush Mahapatra 7/23/16 Plant types compare and contrast report Bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are all plants and autotrophic in nutrition. Autotrophic means of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis. When mosses and liverworts first evolved, they dominated the terrestrial environment. But they were soon challenged by the more advanced tracheophytes.

  • Angiosperm Essay

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    When examining categories of plants and their reproductive success, it is clear that one group is always more successful than any other group, and this group is angiosperms. Angiosperms are vascular plants that reproduce through a variety of mechanisms which have evolutionary significance. There are over 250,000 different species of angiosperms, making them one of the most diverse categories of plants. (Angiosperms 1) Their adaptability and reproductive methods, such as seeds and flowers, allow them

  • DNA barcoding of two species of Coffea (Rubiaceae)

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    representing new species (Hebert et al., 2005). Barcoding promotes biological applications such as identification of medicinal plants and even plant nearing extinction (Muellner et al. 2011). DNA Barcoding defines the expansion and discovery of the world’s ever-expanding inventory of species’ diversity. DNA barcoding requires it to be standard, scalable and minimal. Plants’ low rate of nucleotide substitution in the mitochondrial gene has been the source of major debate regarding a plant’s code for

  • Analysis Of The Floriculture Industry In Sri Lanka

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    The Orchidaceaeis a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with blooms. And Dendrobium is a huge genus of orchids which have most marketing value among other orchids in the world. Orchids with their bewildering range of flowers and beautiful color combinations provide a source of profound aesthetic pleasure to both owners and visitors. The striking resemblances of their flowers to various forms of animal life behold the attention of everyone who looks at them. Orchids are excellent item

  • Disadvantages Of Sunlight

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    Plants only need a few elements to thrive, which are water, air, nutrients, and sunlight. Sunlight is beneficial to a plant’s health because it gives off different types of UV rays that help a plant prosper. These UV rays can be either beneficial or harmful to plants. The intensity of these rays are dependent on 6 different elements: geography, altitude, time of year, time of day, weather conditions, and reflection. These components contribute to the amount of UV rays that are being absorbed by the

  • Cloning Plants

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    reproduction. Cuttings are taken from a mother plant in vegatative growth, and rooted in hydroponic medium to be grown as a separate plant. The offspring will be plants that are identical to the parent plant. Cloning preserves the character of your favorite plant. Cloning can make an ocean of green out of a single plant, so it is a powerful tool for growing large crops, and will fill a closet quickly with your favorite genetics. When you find the plant you want to be your "buddy" for the rest of your

  • The Daintree Rainforest

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    Queensland, Australia. This 1200 square kilometer, or approximately 500 square mile, rainforest is home to 3000 plant species. This region “contains 30 percent of Australia's frog, marsupial and reptile species, 65 percent of Australia's bat and butterfly species and 20 percent of the bird species,” according to the Daintree Discovery Center, the rainforest’s interpretive facility. Of these, 700 plants and 70 animals exist only in northeast Queensland and nowhere else in the world. reference 1 http://www

  • Marijuana

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    agriculture we are use to. This good is Marijuana, an illegal drug. It is "the most widely used illicit drug in America" n(Gold v). In Florida alone, marijuana sales are greater than all businesses except tourism (Gold v). What is marijuana? Marijuana, a plant, known as Cannabis Sativa, labeled that by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753 (Grinspoon 1), is "one of nature's hardiest specimens" (Abel ix). It can survive in any climatic condition possible, and flourishes like weeds do. Marijuana acts like a weed, stealing

  • Essay On African Violets

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    found the plants was named, Saint Paul. Once Saint Paul found them, he gave some to his father who lived in Germany. Once people began to see these plants, it quickly became a trend. The African Violet plants stayed in the Europe area for about two years, before eventually making its way over to the United States. There are many different colors of African Violets that can be derived from the original cultivar. The African Violet has a neat construction of the leaves on the outside of the plant and the

  • Angiosperms During The Cretaceous Period

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    the same time, the plants were also quite a discovery in the fossil record. The plants grew immensely and were quite plentiful for the herbivorous that roamed the Earth. However, there was one particular group of plants that eventually took over as the leading plant in the Cretaceous, which were angiosperms. Theses angiosperms are unique plants that later evolved along with sauropods and other creatures in the Cretaceous period. These plants were also known as flowering plants that were considered