Definitions
The domain and kingdom of plants
What are Eukarya and Plantae?
The THREE zones in a root.
What are the zone of cell division, zone of elongation, and zone of maturation.
The direction that xylem flows
What is from the root to the leaves?
The evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant.
What is transpiration?
The purpose of flowers.
What are to produce gametes for fertilization of new plants?
What is Turgor pressure?
Roots that grow from sturctures that are not part of the original root system.
What are ADVENTITIOUS Roots? Aerial Roots also acceptable.
Both leaves and stems can perform this food-making process.
What is photosynthesis?
What attaches the leaf to the stem.
What is pestiole?
Parts of a pistil.
What are the stigma, style, and ovary?
The TISSUE that is responsible for the growth of the plant.
What is merismatic tissue?
Beets, carrots, radishes sweet potatoes are examples of this type of root.
What is food-storage root?
The part of the stem that produces vascular tissue.
What is the vascular cambium?
The two types of cells in the region between the two epidermis.
What are the palisade mesophyll and the spongy mesophyll?
The part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
The type of seed that has two cotyledones.
What are eudicots?
Some weeds have a single, long root, with smaller branches off that central root.
What is a TAPROOT system?
The substance in the tree bark that makes the stem hard.
What is lignin?
Part of the leaf doing photosynthesis.
What is the blade?
A group of plants that make seeds but the seeds are not surrounded by a fruit.
What is gymnosperms?
Name TWO organs found in plants that are not found in other organisms.
What are (any TWO):
cel wall outside the cell, central vacuole, storage vesicles, plastids, and plasmodesmata.
Tall trees, like redwood and sequoia, don't have very deep roots, but instead have this system.
What is the fibrous root system?
An example of underground stem.
What is (any of these)?
Rhyzome, tuber, bulb, corms.
These control the opening and closing of the stomata under the leaves.
What are guard cells?
The two form of alternation in generation.
What are sporophyte and gametophyte?