Plant Organs
The organ that attaches the plant to the ground and allows it to absorb water and minerals salts.
The root.
The protective layer surrounding the seed.
The seed coat.
What do ferns have that allow them to grow bigger sizes than mosses?
Conducting vessels and protective tissues.
Mosses are small plants with tissues but no ____.
organs.
What type pf reproduction is budding?
Asexual reproduction.
The organ that keeps the pant upright and supports the part that is above ground.
The stem.
A nutritive substance surrounding the embryo.
The endosperm.
What is underground and horizontal and has conducting vessels?
The stem or rhizome.
How do mosses absorb water and mineral salts?
Across their entire surface.
Underground stems containing nutrient reserves and buds.
Tubers.
The organs specialized in performing photosynthesis.
The leaves.
Occurs when a seed that has fallen to the ground absorbs water and opens up, and the embryo starts to grow.
Germination.
Filaments that anchor the plant to the ground.
Underground stems surrounded by fleshy leaves and containing buds.
Bulbs.
The upper side of a leaf.
The adaxial surface.
After fertilization, an angiosperm flower loses it's petals, sepals, stamens, and pistil, and the ovary walls thicken to form this.
A fruit containing the seed inside.
Prevent too much water loss.
Cauloids.
Underground stems that grow horizontally and develop buds, which become new plants.
Rhizomes.
Tube-shaped channels that run through the root, the stem, and the veins of the leaves and circulate sap.
The conducting vessels.
Name the six stages of sexual reproduction in seed plants.
Gamete formation, pollination, fertilization, seed and fruit formation, seed dispersal, and seed germination.
Name the two reproductive structures and what they produce.
Phylloids.
Above-ground stems that grow parallel to the ground and develop buds at their tips.