Flowering Seed Plants
Has one primary root that goes straight down.
What is a taproot system?
Made of disk and ray flowers, makes me think of sunfowers.
The flat part of the leaf.
What is the blade?
The part of the cell that plants have that animals don't. Is responsible for turgor pressure in plants.
What is the cell wall?
Our memory verse for these chapters
What is John 1:1?
DAILY DOUBLE
Live through 2 growing seasons to complete their life cycle.
What are Biennials?
The family to which all the high-yielding cereal crops belong.
What is the grass family?
Attaches the blade to the stem and contains connective tissue that that conducts substances between the stem and the blade.
What is the petiole?
“Chemical factories” that use light to produce food (photosynthesis)
What is chlorophyll?
The reaction in photosynthesis that uses hydrogen to make ATP and NADPH
What is the Light Reaction?
These help vines twine around and climb things.
What are tendrils?
This family has a garden and wild variety.
What is the Rose Family?
The venation pattern where there is one major vein (midrib) with smaller veins branching off.
What is pinnate?
The part of the cell where all the genetic material is stored and controls cell activity.
What is the nucleus?
DAILY DOUBLE
The microbes in the soil that keep it "alive" and able to grow plants. They deposit an important chemical in the soil.
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
Used to store food until the seed begins to grow
What are cotyledons?
Members include Poison Hemlock and Water Hemlock
What is the Parsley Family?
Leaf pores that allow air to move into and out of the leaf.
What are stomata?
The specialized layer of cells that serve to sever the connection between the petiole and the stem - "chop the leaf" off in the fall
What is the Abscission layer?
Losing water vapor through leaves and stems
What is transpiration?
The name given to all flowering seed plants.
What are angiosperms?
Commonly referred to as Legumes
What is the Pea Family?
Sap-conducting tissues
What is vascular tissue?
The bulky middle portion of the leaf where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the mesophyll?
The three pigments that give fall leaves their colors
What are Xanthophyll, Carotene, and Anthocyanin?