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📚 Key Concepts

Root System

Types: Tap root, Fibrous root
Modifications
- For storage: Carrot, sweet potato
- For support: Banyan prop roots
- For respiration: Pneumatophores
- For symbiotic association: Nodules

Stem

Functions
Modifications
- Underground: Rhizome, tuber, bulb, corm
- Sub-aerial: Runner, stolon, offset, sucker
- Aerial: Tendrils, thorns

Leaf

Parts: Lamina, petiole, stipules
Types
- Simple vs Compound
- Pinnately/Palmately compound
Venation
- Reticulate
- Parallel
Phyllotaxy
- Alternate
- Opposite
- Whorled

Inflorescence

Racemose
Cymose
Special types

Flower

Complete/Incomplete
Bisexual/Unisexual
Parts
- Calyx (sepals)
- Corolla (petals)
- Androecium (stamens)
- Gynoecium (carpels)
Placentation types

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🎯 Key Formulas

Important Terms

Aestivation: Petal arrangement
Actinomorphic: Radially symmetrical
Zygomorphic: Bilaterally symmetrical
Hypogynous/Perigynous/Epigynous flowers
Superior/Inferior ovary

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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

Confusing leaf types and arrangements

Mixing up flower symmetry types

Wrong identification of placentation

Incorrect flower part arrangements

Misidentifying modifications

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📖 Knowledge Prerequisites

Basic plant structure understanding

Knowledge of plant parts

Familiarity with technical terms

Understanding of plant adaptations

Basic botanical drawing skills

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💡 Tips for Students

Draw and label diagrams regularly

Create comparison tables for modifications

Use real plant examples

Make flowcharts for classification

Learn technical terms with examples

Focus on practical identification

Study actual specimens when possible

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👉 Practice Recommedations

Practice drawing labeled diagrams

Identify modifications in local plants

Compare different types of leaves

Practice flower dissection

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