BIOL 1050- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)

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Plant reproduction: reproduction, sexual, flower anatomy, pollination and fertilization, asexual, climate change/global warming, adaptation to climate change, bee decline/colony collapse disorder. Linnaeus created the system we use for classifying nature. Taxonomy: species level: species, scientific name binomial, written in italics, derived from latin, group of individuals that when they interbreed, produce viable & fertile progeny without artificial intervention. Taxonomy: subspecies level: subspecies, capable of interbreeding & forming fertile offspring, not in nature due to geographical or other barriers, cultivar, a recognized subpopulation cultivated by us. Intergeneric hybrids: fertile progeny involving two genera, requires intervention, embryo rescue, bridge crossing, chromosome doubling, cell fusion, nomenclature, new genus is a combined name of the two genera, x is used to indicate the genus cross. Plant reproduction: we will focus on division magnoliophyta (angiosperms, flowering vascular plants, covered seeds, seeds surrounded by an ovule (ex.