BIOL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Plant Breeding, Cyperus Esculentus, Genetically Modified Organism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1050
• Professor: Laura Graham

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Notes on the midterm: the midterm will have questions from the lecture material that was presented in class. I won"t use any questions directly from the end of the chapter in the textbook, but. I may use variations: multiple choice, including which statement is not correct. Vegetative reproduction and propagation: rhizome: stem that is usually underground (main stem of a plant, where a stolon is produced from a stem and produces a plant at the end), quack grass ( twitch grass, day lily, ginger. Vegetative reproduction and propagation: tubers are modified stems that are storage organs and also reproduce. Tuber is a swollen underground stem containing starch. Roots will sprout at the top the crown. As do bulbs and corms (green side up). Sprouts develop from buds that are the eyes of the potato tuber. Corn can no longer reproduce successfully by itself. There is no mechanism for natural seed dispersal.