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Prefix, meaning minutely (e.g. microvesiculate, with minute vesicles). Prefix for units of measurement, one millionth part (i.e. 10-6); symbol μ (or sometimes me). In sociology, a level of analysis that searches for relationships within a single institution or within the smaller segments of society sociologists are chiefly concerned with the psychology of the situation rather…

Condition in which the stigma is receptive before pollen from that individual is released.  

Constructive chemical changes in a living cell. The sum of all chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism. The processes of interconversion of chemical compounds in the body. Anabolism is the process of forming larger and more complex compounds, commonly linked to the utilisation of metabolic energy. Catabolism is the process of breaking…

Middle part of the outer integument of the seed.  

Vegetation adapted to normal conditions, avoiding both very wet and arid conditions.  

Plant adapted to living in normal conditions that are neither very wet nor very dry.  

The undifferentiated chlorophyllose parenchyma occurring below the epidermis usually of a leaf or stem; Leaf size class proposed by Raunkiaer (1934) and modified by Webb (1959): between 4501 and 18,225 mm2. Thin-walled parenchyma tissue containing chloroplasts that composes the bulk of the upper and lower epidermis.  

Stem-like tissue connecting the seed and the base of the coleoptile.  

(In an orchid flower) the midportion of a lip that is divided into three distinct portions; mesochilium is a less common spelling.