Parts of a flower
Vase shaped structure in the center of the flower.
What is the pistil?
The tiny shoot that will become the stem and leaves.
What is the plumule?
The process of plants to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants that live for two growing seasons.
What are biennials?
A seed with two cotelydons.
What is a dicot?
Sticky part That is at the top of the pistil.
What is the stigma?
The small root that will develop into the plant’s root system.
What is the radicle?
The opening on the underside of leaves that allow carbon dioxide to enter and oxygen to leave.
What are stomata?
The process of a sperm cell combining with an egg cell of a plant.
What is fertilization?
The process of a seed becoming a plant.
What is germination?
Chute that the sperm cell travels down to meet the egg cell.
What is the pollen tube?
Structures designed for food absorption and storage.
What are cotelydons?
The process that is the opposite of photosynthesis, it uses glucose and oxygen to make energy, carbon dioxide and water.
What is cellular respiration?
The ripened part of an ovary.
What is fruit?
Leaf like structures that surround the base of the petals.
What are sepals?
Part where the seed is formed.
What is the ovary?
The outer protection of a seed.
What is the seed coat?
Complex chains of glucose units.
What is starch?
A name for something that helps a seed travel away from the parent plant.
What is an agent of dispersal?
The process of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
What is pollination?
Parts that produces pollen grains.
What are the anthers?
Part of the sperm cell turned into food for the seed.
What is the endosperm?
The movement of water upward thru tiny tubes.
What is capillarity?
Scientific term for a flowering plant.
What is an angiosperm?
Three things that a plant needs to start to grow.
What are moisture (water), warmth, and oxygen?