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BIO 221 Plant Physiology

NCE2 levelSciences15 topics

BIO 221 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Objectives;
  2. Water Relations
  3. Absorption of water
  4. Transpiration in details
  5. Mineral Nutrition in plants
  6. The various mineral requirements of plants: sources and roles of each minera l
  7. Photosynthesis
  8. Plants as Primary producers of food for populations. General description of the
  9. Translocation of manufactured food. Reduction of nitrates and production of
  10. Respiration
  11. General description of aerobic and anaerobic respiration in plants.
  12. Growth and Movements
  13. Growth of plants in length, and its measurement. Movement in plants e.g.
  14. Excretion in Plants
  15. Excretion materials and their removal from the plant body.

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Objectives;

The topic "Objectives" in Plant Physiology focuses on why the course is studied and what a student is expected to understand about plant life processes. For exam purposes, you should master the broad aims of plant physiology: explaining how plants function, how internal processes relate to growth and survival, and how this knowledge is applied in agriculture, ecology, and biotechnology.

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