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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 37, Problem 8TYU
In plants that lack endosperm in their mature seeds, the cotyledons function to (a) enclose and protect the seed (b) aid in seed dispersal (c) serve as an absorptive embryonic root (d) store food reserves (e) attach the embryo within the ovule
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Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 37.1 - Prob. 1LOCh. 37.1 - Prob. 2LOCh. 37.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 37.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 37.1 - Prob. 3CCh. 37.1 - Prob. 4CCh. 37.2 - Compare the evolutionary adaptations that...Ch. 37.2 - Prob. 4LOCh. 37.2 - Prob. 1CCh. 37.2 - Prob. 2C
Ch. 37.2 - Give three examples in which the relationship of a...Ch. 37.3 - Prob. 5LOCh. 37.3 - Prob. 6LOCh. 37.3 - Explain the relationships among ovules, ovaries,...Ch. 37.3 - Distinguish among simple, aggregate, multiple, and...Ch. 37.3 - Prob. 1CCh. 37.3 - What are the main stages of eudicot embryonic...Ch. 37.3 - Prob. 3CCh. 37.3 - Prob. 4CCh. 37.3 - What are some characteristics of animal-dispersed...Ch. 37.4 - Prob. 9LOCh. 37.4 - Prob. 1CCh. 37.4 - How does early seedling development differ in...Ch. 37.5 - Explain how the following structures may be used...Ch. 37.5 - Prob. 11LOCh. 37.5 - How are rhizomes and tubers involved in asexual...Ch. 37.5 - Prob. 2CCh. 37.5 - Prob. 3CCh. 37.6 - Prob. 12LOCh. 37.6 - Prob. 1CCh. 37.6 - Prob. 2CCh. 37 - The normal order of whorls from the flowers...Ch. 37 - Prob. 2TYUCh. 37 - Prob. 3TYUCh. 37 - Prob. 4TYUCh. 37 - The process of _______________ in flowering plants...Ch. 37 - The nutritive tissue in the seeds of flowering...Ch. 37 - Prob. 7TYUCh. 37 - In plants that lack endosperm in their mature...Ch. 37 - Prob. 9TYUCh. 37 - A horizontal underground stem that may or may not...Ch. 37 - Place the following events in the correct order:...Ch. 37 - Prob. 12TYUCh. 37 - Prob. 13TYUCh. 37 - Prob. 14TYUCh. 37 - Which type of reproduction, sexual or asexual,...Ch. 37 - Prob. 16TYUCh. 37 - Prob. 17TYU
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