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August 14, 2015

Digital Scavenger Hunt 2

Angiosperm: a flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an
ovary. The picture illustrates a flowering plant whose seeds are enclosed inside a carpel
(ovary, located in the center of plant)

Basidiomycete: member of the fungal phylum Basidiomycota, commonly called club

fungus. The name comes from the club-like shape of the basidium, a cell in which
karyogamy occurs, followed immediately by meiosis. Basidiomycetes are important
decomposers of wood and other plant material. Its life cycle usually includes a prolonged
dikaryotic mycelium that produces spores in the hyphae. An example of a basidiomycete
is a mushroom

Carbohydrates-Fibrous: plant food, mainly green vegetables that contain high amounts
of fiber. These complex carbohydrates are long and extended molecules that are
indigestible and generally insoluble in water. Very low in calories, theyre essential in
aiding the digestive system. Whole wheat bread is a type of fibrous carbohydrate that
cannot be broken down in the digestive tract. Rather it adds to stool that aids bowel
movements.

Conifer leaf: member of the largest gymnosperm phylum, trees whose seeds are not
enclosed inside a fruit. A leaf that comes from a tree with needles and scaly leaves that
produce pinecones as a reproductive structure. Most conifers are cone-bearing trees, such
as pines and firs in the picture shown here

Endotherm: referring to organisms with bodies that are warmed by heat generated by
metabolism. This heat is usually used to maintain a relatively stable body temperature
higher than that of the external environment. In the human body, all the organ systems
work together to maintain homeostasis. For the proper functioning of the body, humans
are able to maintain a steady internal environment, even when the temperature of the
surroundings is greater/lesser than that of the body. It is about 95F outside in the picture,
but on average, a human body like mine, is able to maintain a temperature of 98.6 on
average for survival.

Epithelial tissue: sheets of tightly packed cells that line organs and body cavities as well
as external figures. For example, the epidermis of the skin, the outermost layer, is
epithelial tissue because it is made up of many layers of flat cells

Eukaryote: organisms with eukaryotic cells (protists, plants, fungi, and animals) are
called eukaryotes. It is a type of cell with a membrane-enclosed nucleus and membraneenclosed organelles. For example, since human cells have nuclei, they are eukaryotic.

Glycogen: An extensively branched glucose storage polysaccharide found in the liver

and muscle of animals; the animal equivalent of starch. A form of starch is found in
bread. When consumed, the bread breaks down into glucose in the body that can also be
stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen. Glycogen can then be used to maintain blood
sugar.

Heartwood: The central wood in a branch or stem characterized by being composed of

dead cells, more resistant to decay, generally darker and harder than the outer wood.

Leaf-Gymnosperm: the plant structure (leaf) that comes from a vascular plant that bears
naked seeds-seeds not enclosed in specialized chambers. In the picture, the pine needles
come from a coniferous tree, and are gymnosperm leaves

Meristem: plant tissue that remains embryonic as long as the plant lives, allowing for
indeterminable growth. In a plant, meristems can be found in the buds (shoot apical),
within the stem (lateral), and in the roots (root apical)

Modified stem of a plant: transformed or specialized stem that usually performs and
carries out a function different than a normal stem. For example, thorns are modified
stems for a plants protection against predators and its natural habitat

Protein-fibrous: aka, scleroproteins are long chain-like protein molecules that are
involved in the structural and storage tissues. Any of a class of generally insoluble
proteins, such as collagen, found especially in skeletal and connective tissue. Collagen is
a structural and fibrous protein found in hair and nails

Stigma & Style of Carpel: The carpel is the ovule-producing reproductive organ of a
flower, consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary. In the picture, it is the entire stem-like
feature. The style is the stalk of the flowers carpel, with the ovary at the base and the
stigma at the top. After pollination, pollen grains will produce pollen tubes that grow
down the style toward the ovary. The stigma is the top part of a flowers carpel, which
traps pollen grains. It is the top, sticky portion of the carpel and pollination occurs here.

Thorn of a Plant: A modified branch in the form of a sharp woody structure. Thorns are
a natural defense mechanism for plants.