Basics to botany
This is an individual living thing.
Organism
This is the underground part of a plant that stores food and absorbs nutrients.
Root systeme
This process converts light energy into chemical energy and produces glucose in plants.
Photosynthesis
A plant that completes its entire life cycle in one growing season is called this.
Annual
These structures are responsible for producing seeds in flowering plants.
Flowers
This is the region where an organism normally lives.
Habitat
This part of a leaf attaches the blade to the stem.
Petiole
This is the large vein running down the center of a leaf blade.
Midrib
A plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons is called this.
bienial
These are the types of grasses commonly used to feed livestock and for lawns, athletic fields, golf courses, and hay.
Forage grasses
A plant that produces wood is called this.
Woody plant
This is the flat, green portion of a leaf.
Blade
These tiny openings in the surface of a leaf allow gases to enter and leave
stomata
A plant that lives for more than two growing seasons is called this.
Perennial
These plants have flower parts in multiples of three and leaves with parallel veins.
Monocots
A plant that does not produce wood is called this.
Herbaceous plant
This tissue transports water and dissolved minerals upward from the roots to the leaves.
Xylem
This organelle contains chlorophyll and is the main site of photosynthesis.
Chloroplast
These plants lose their leaves and remain bare during the winter.
deciduous plants
These plants have flower parts in multiples of four or five, leaves with branching veins, and taproots.
Dicots
hese are the two major kinds of flowering plants, classified by whether their seeds are enclosed in fruit.
Angiosperm gymnosperm
This tissue produces new cork cambium and is responsible for producing new growth in certain plant tissues.
Cambium
This green chemical in plants captures the radiant energy of light.
Chlorophyll
These plant keep their leaves all year round
Evergreen
These soil bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, making nitrogen available to plants.
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria