Plant Anatomy
The, usually, tube-like portion of a vascular plant that moves water and sugar between the roots and leaves
What is a stem?
The name for plant sperm or male gamete
What is pollen?
What is water?
This is the female portion of the plant that houses the egg prior to fertilization.
What is the pistil?
Sporangium are named for the reason that they produce and disperse these.
What are spores?
A portion of the plant that is the first part that absorbs nutrients from the soil
What is the root?
The process by which a female gamete (egg) comes in contact with a male gamete cell (sperm/ pollen)
What is fertilization?
Non-vascular plants by definition lack the tubular structures to directly move materials around the plant. They instead rely on this force to move materials around where they are needed.
What is diffusion?
This part of the flower attracts pollinators and are usually brightly colored
What are petals?
This plant is the main actor in the diploid (2n) cycle of a fern or moss life-cycle
What is a sporophyte?
Name of microscopic holes that allow for gas exchange in the leave
What is the stoma
Coniferophyta is known for these types of trees that have spiky leaves and their seeds are housed in this.
What is a cone?
Non-vascular plants use these to reproduce, different than seed-bearing plants.
What are spores?
This female portion of the plant is sticky so that pollen will stick to it when it comes into contact.
What is the stigma?
These plants are both male and female in type and need to combine in order to reproduce further
What is a gametophye?
This cell type has the most chloroplasts in the leaf and are named for their ability to support leave structure.
What is palisade mesophyll?
The process when a seed breaks open its seed coat and begins growing outside of it.
What is germination?
Brophyta is the classification for this extremely common type of non-vascular plant.
What are mosses?
This is the primary male portion of a flowering plant that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
In the male gametophye this structure houses and disperses the sperm cells
What is an Antheridium?
The type of vascular tissue that resides in stems that allows water and other nutrients to move up and down the stem (elevator)
What is phloem?
The term given to the first portion of the plant to grow out of the seed coat during germination.
What is a radicle?
This term refers to the fleshy type of cells present in liverworts.
What is thallose?
These green portions of a flower protect it when it is not in bloom.
What are sepals?
This is the female structure of a gametophyte that houses the egg prior to fertilization.
What is the archegonium?