Monday, 25 June 2012

Alyssa Minnick

Endotherm: warm-blooded animal, (animal that can generate internal heat.)

This picture shows a dog, (a warm-blooded animal). Other warm-blooded animals are cats, horses, cows, pigs , and many other animals.

Autotroph: An organism capable of synthesizing its own food by using light or chemical energy.

An example of and autotroph is grass.

Long-day plant:  Physiological reaction of organisms to the length of day or night. This plant strives in the summer due to the nights being short and the days being long.

This is a picture of a spinach plant begining to grow. It is a long-day plant that will grow through the summer due to the pattern of daylight.

Unicellular organism: Contains only one cell. It is a single-celled organism.

This is a picture of bread. The yeast in the bread only contains one cell making it an unicellular organism.
Gibberellins: Any of a group of plant hormones that stimulate stem elongation, germination, and flowering.
This is found in grapes and many other plants.





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