Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Artifact collection last 20 pics.

Gycogen is the storage form of glucose in animals and humans which is analogous to the starch in plants. Glycogen is synthesized and stored mainly in the liver and the muscles, as shown in the picture.
All lipids are hydrophobic: that's the one property they have in common. This group of molecules includes fats and oils, like the oil shown in the picture, waxes, phospolipids, steroids (like cholesterol), and some other related compounds. (lipid used for energy storage).
A diploid chromosome is a threadlike linear strand of DNA and associated proteins in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells that carries the genes and functions in the transmission of hereditary information. A dogas shown in the picture has 78 chromosomes.
phloem is the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant, like the one shown in the picture.
Endosperm is nutritive tissue in the seeds of most flowering plants. It surrounds the embryo and is produced by an unusual process that parallels the Nutritive tissue in the seeds of most flowering plants. It surrounds the embryo and is produced by an unusual process that parallels the fertilization of the ovum by a male gamete.of the ovum by a male gamete.
Mycorrhizae is the symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots of certain plants, such as conifers, as shown in the picture, beeches, or orchids.

Xylem is the supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue like the tree trunk of a tree.
A Tendril is a twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant, such as a grape or cucumber, grasps an object or a plant for support.
Stems that are woody are the stems of plants who have been growing for two years or more. After two years, a plant's stem thickens to accommodate growth and increased circulation in a plant. An example of a woody stem is a tree trunk.
Herbaceous is a description of a plant whose stem has little or no woody tissue an example of a plant that has a herbaceus stem would be a sunflower like the one shown in the picture
A Spore is a small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly resistant to desiccation and heat and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain bacteria, fungi , like the mushrooms shown in the picture, algae, and nonflowering plants.
Radial Symmetry is the condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis. An example of radial symmetry would be the flower shown in the picture.
Fibrous Proteins are proteins that tend to be insoluble and strong and so play a structural role in organisms for support or protection. For example the fingernails shown in the picture.
An insect is any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings. An example of an insect would be the fly shown in the picture.
Dry Fruits can be divided into those in which the seeds are contained in a seedpod of some sort which opens to release the seeds (called Dehiscent), and those in which there isn't a seedpod which opens (Indehiscent). An example of a dry fruit would be a raisin since they are grapes that have dried.
Bryophyte is a resource devoted to Bryology, the branch of plant science concerned with the study of mosses, like the moss on the tree shown in the picture, liverworts and hornworts. It provides information on the classification, structural features, and natural history.
Trees that lose all their once a year are called deciduous, like the leaves on the tree shoown in the picture whereas trees which lose their leaves continously and not all at once are called evergreen.
Chitin is a polysaccharide found in the outer skeleton of insects, for example the bee shown in the picture, crabs, shrimps, and lobsters and in the internal structures of other invertebrates. Chitin is composed of ß(1-4) linked units of the amino sugar N-acetyl-glucosamine, and is the main source of production of chitosan
Basidiomycetes are any of various members of a large group of fungi for example the mushrooms showmn in the picture, bearing sexually produced spores on a basidium.


A C 4 plant is a plant that utilizes the C4 carbon fixation pathway in which the CO2 is first bound to a phosphoenolpyruvate in mesophyll cell resulting in the formation of four-carbon compound (oxaloacetate) that is shuttled to the bundle sheath cell where it will be decarboxylated to liberate the CO2 to be utilized in the C3 pathway.An example of a C 4 Plant would be the sugar cane shown in the picture

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