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🥀Intro to Botany
Key Terms

300 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Botany exam

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A

Abiotic disorders
Abiotic pollination
Abscisic acid
Abscisic acid signaling
Abscission
Abscission Layer
Abundance
Acclimation Mechanisms
Adaptive radiation
Adventitious roots
Aerenchyma
After-ripening
Agamous
Aggregate Fruit
Agricultural yield
Agrobacterium transformation
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Algal biomass
Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase
Alternaria
Alternation of generations
Animal dispersal
Annuals
Apical Growth
Apomixis
Arabidopsis thaliana
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Armillaria root rot
Aseptic technique
Asymmetrical Flowers
Auxin transport

B

Bacterial leaf spot
Bacterial wilt
Bedding plants
Binomial nomenclature
Biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity value
Biogeography
Bioindicators
Boron
Breeding for resistance
Bright field microscopy

C

Caspases
Cation exchange capacity
Cell elongation
Chemotropism
Chlorophyll a
Chlorophyll b
Chlorophyll Fluorescence Analysis
Chromatography
Coevolution
Combinational Dormancy
Community composition
Companion planting
Comparative genomics
Complete dominance
Complete Flower
Confocal laser scanning microscopy
Conifers
Constitutive defenses
Controlled Environment Experiments
Copper-based bactericides
Cork and Lenticels
Cotyledon expansion
Crispr-cas9
Crown Gall
Cucumber mosaic virus
Cuticle and wax layers

D

Dichotomous Branching
Dispersal mechanisms
DNA
Domestication syndrome
Dominant allele
Dormancy
Dormancy phase