Sunday, August 11, 2013

Parasitism

Is when one organism is against another for example when a person is sick. The organisms inside the body are battling. 

Taxis

:   The responsive movement of a free-moving organism or cell toward or away from an external stimulus, such as light like moths do in the night towards a porch light.

Endosperm

Is the part of the seed that act as foods and usually contain starch, protein, and other nutrients like rice.

Ruminant

A ruminant is a mammal that digests plant-based food like the cycle of a cow producing milk.

C3 Plant

Everything that a C3 plant is this mango has. A C3 plant is carbon fixation is a metabolic pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Endosperm

Endosperm is the nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo like corn.

Autotroph

Autotroph is anything that is self-nourishing like flowers.