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What type of plant is zucchini??
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:22 pm
by carolZED
Is it a C3, C4 or CAM plant?
Is it a gymnosperm, an angiosperm, an embryo, a nitrogen fixing legume or a super storage oragan?????
This is due for tomorrow and I can't find any info on the web!!
Re: What type of plant is zucchini??
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:15 pm
by deleted-71417
Hi,
Here is a page with the scientific classification of zucchini. I think you should be able to figure out the rest of your questions from that.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ent ... sh_(plant)
Best regards,
Barrett Tomlinson
Re: What type of plant is zucchini??
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:01 pm
by deleted-71417
Hi,
You might be interested in this discussion of the distribution of C3, C4, and CAM photosynthesis strategies among plants:
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e24/24b.htm
I am fairly sure you quickly deduced zucchini, as a squash, is a dicot angiosperm and a C3 photosynthesizer. It is not a gymnosperm, nor a legume.