Chapter 21 - Page 236 (Critical Thinking) 1. Age of tree can be determined through the diameter of the trunk?

How can this be possible? Trees have a wide variety of sizes and shapes and growth habits. Specimens may grow as individual trunks, multitrunk masses, coppices, clonal colonies, or even more exotic tree complexes. Most champion tree programs focus finding and measuring the largest single-trunk example of each species. There are three basic parameters commonly measured to characterize the size of a single trunk tree: height, girth, and crown spread. Additional details on the methodology of Tree height measurement, Tree girth measurement, Tree crown measurement, and Tree volume measurement are presented in the links herein. A detailed guideline to these basic measurements is provided in The Tree Measuring Guidelines of the Eastern Native Tree Society by Will Blozan. 2. How are the tissues structures related to their functions? keep looking but I find answers either too in depth or too vague. Would somebody please be able to give me the most important details of how the structure of nerve tissue relates to its function in about 100 words please. Chapter 22 Page 243 (Critical Thinking) 1. Why is meristematic cells division important in plant life? In general, differentiated plant cells cannot divide or produce cells of a different type. Therefore, cell division in the meristem is required to provide new cells for expansion and differentiation of tissues and initiation of new organs, providing the basic structure of the plant body. Meristematic cells are incompletely or not at all differentiated, and are capable of continued cellular division (youthful). Furthermore, the cells are small and protoplasm fills the cell completely. The vacuoles are extremely small. The cytoplasm does not contain differentiated plastids (chloroplasts or chromoplasts), although they are present in rudimentary form (proplastids). Meristematic cells are packed closely together without intercellular cavities. The cell wall is a very thin primary cell wall. 2. Discuss how hormones work together in order for plants to grow and develop. Different hormones affect different plant processes. Understanding how hormones work allows horticulturists to manipulate plants for specific purposes. Auxins produced in the terminal buds suppress the growth of side buds and stimulate root growth. They also affect cell elongation (tropism), apical dominance, and fruit drop or retention. Gibberellins affect: - The rate of cell division - Flowering - Increase in size of leaves and fruits - Seed and bud dormancy - Induction of growth at lower temperatures (used to green up lawns 2 to 3 weeks earlier) Cytokinins promote cell division, and influence cell differentiation and aging of leaves. Abscisic acid is considered the stress hormone. It inhibits the effects of other hormones to reduce growth during times of plant stress. Chapter 23 Page 251 (Critical Thinking) 1. Why do plants bear flowers and bear fruits at different times of the year?

We are a couple with a baby, this year is my first time veg growing and grew 2x courgettes, 1x Marrow, 3x Melon (small as only recently planted), 5x Tomato (beefsteak, minibel & moneymaker), 4x red cabbage (2 ripped out due to heavy disease) 3x savoy cabbage, 3x swedes, about 50 carrots, about 30 beets, 1x large tall pot of potatoes, 1x med - large pot potatoes recently put in (to have new potatoes by December), about 12 parsnips, 12 bean plants of different varieties, 2x ocra (still really small - don't think I will get anything before season end.