Apple Crispiness
These tiny structures inside apples contain water and affect crispiness.
Answer: What are cells?
This flower part receives pollen.
Answer: What is the stigma?
This process happens when pollen moves from flower to flower.
Answer: What is pollination?
A characteristic like apple color or crispiness.
Answer: What is a trait?
This process attaches part of one tree onto another tree.
Answer: What is grafting?
This process describes water moving in and out of cells.
Answer: What is osmosis?
This flower part makes pollen.
Answer: What is the anther?
This process occurs when pollen joins with the egg cell.
Answer: What is fertilization?
Different versions of the same gene are called these.
Answer: What are alleles?
In the "Meet an Apple Grower" Video from yesterday, how many different varities of apples did he have on 1 tree?
Answer: 250 different types of apples
When apple cells lose water, apples become less ________.
Answer: What is crispy/firm?
This flower structure later becomes the apple fruit.
Answer: What is the ovary?
These organisms help move pollen between flowers.
Answer: What are pollinators?
(accept: bees, insects, butterflies)
A trait that shows whenever present is called this.
Answer: What is dominant?
This part of the graft is the branch from the desired apple tree.
Answer: What is the scion?
n the lab, apples in vinegar became softer because water moved ________ of the cells.
Answer: What is out?
These structures inside the ovary become seeds after fertilization.
Answer: What are ovules?
After fertilization, the ovule becomes this.
Answer: What is a seed?
A trait hidden unless there are two copies is called this.
Answer: What is recessive?
Explain why a grafted Honeycrisp branch still grows Honeycrisp apples.
Answer: What is the branch still contains Honeycrisp genes/cells?
Explain why apples become crispier when their cells contain more water.
Answer: What is the cells become full and tightly packed together?
Put these in order: seed, apple, flower, tree.
Answer: What is seed → tree → flower → apple?
Explain why pollinators are important for apple reproduction.
Answer: What is they help move pollen so seeds can form?
Explain why offspring from the same parents can still look different.
Answer: What is they inherit different combinations of alleles/traits?
In the "Grafting" video, how many total weeks did the grower leave the grafting type on the graft?
58 + 25 = 83 weeks