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Consists of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core.
What is a pome?
Consists of a seed enclosed in a hard, thick shell.
What is a nut?
Entire fruit is fleshy and juicy throughout.
What is a berry?
Produced by plants of the grass family.
What is grain?
Consists of a pod enclosing several seeds.
What is a legume?
Dispersal of seeds by the wind is an example of_____.
What is agent dispersal?
The section of a twig between nodes.
What is an internode?
Small opening in the stem's bark that allows air to enter the stem.
What is lenticels?
Reproductive cells (an egg and sperm).
What are gametes?
The tissue that surrounds and nourishes developing plant embryo?
What is endosperm?
The part of a root tip in which cells grow longer.
What is the region of elongation?
The tough outer covering of a monocot herbaceous stem.
What is rind?
Within a root, food is stored in the ________.
What is cortex?
The part of a seed's embryo that develops into the new plant's root system.
The part of a flower that protects the rest of the flower during development.
What is sepal?
Special roots that grow from unusual regions of a plant.
What is adventitious roots?
Wood is another name for ______ tissue.
What is xylem?
The process by which substances mix through random molecular motion.
What is diffusion?
The part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is an anther?
The older, inner wood of a stem that serves only to support the stem is _______.
The process of growing a new plant from a root, stem, or leaf of an existing plant.
What is vegetative reproduction?
Plant seedlings that receive light from only one direction and bend toward the light demonstrates ____________.
What is phototropism?
The first step in the process of germination.
What is the begin absorbs water?
Contains stored food to supply the energy needed for sprouting.
What are cotyledons?
The chief factor in determining when a plant flowers.
What is the length of day and night?