BIOL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Meristem, Gametogenesis, Spermatogenesis

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Cells form specialized tissues, organs and organisms through the process of development. Plant development differs from animal development: plants continue to grow and develop throughout their lives. Asymmetric cell division: mitosis that creates two daughter cells with distinct cell fates. Developmental plasticity describes the effect of environment on development. Meristems: plant development is the product of meristems. Growing tips (apices) of the plant: contain continuously diving cell populations, provide all the cells of the development. All plants have at least one form of apical meristem, most have two: root apical meristem (ram, shoot apical meristem (sam) Sam generates new organs and maintain stem cell reservoir for future organ formation. Layer structure in 3 layers: l1: outermost layer. Differenciates into epidermis: l2: differentiates into subepidermis, cortex, l3: internal layer. Why is arabidopsis used as model organism: small genome. Easily transformed by introducing foreign dna: self-pollinates, short life cycle. Same developmental stages as all other flowering plants.

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