Flowering Seed Plants
The study of plants.
What is botany?
The venation in which a leaf with small veins that extend outward from a single main vein.
What is pinnate venation?
Part of the plant embryo that develops into stems and leaves.
What is the plumule?
Layering, grafting, and budding are types of this.
What is vegetative propagation?
An organism that obtains its nutrition from dead organisms.
What is a saprophyte?
The flowering seed plants that produce seeds that are covered by fruits.
What are angiosperms?
A plant uses light energy, water, and carbon dioxide to produce glucose and this.
What is oxygen?
The type of fruit that has an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer.
What is a drupe?
The growth of a plant toward or away from a stimulus such as light, water, touch, or gravity.
What is tropism?
Plants that reproduce by seeds formed in cones or conelike structures are classified as this.
What are gymnosperms?
Trees that lose their leaves in autumn and remain bare in the winter.
What are deciduous trees?
The type of plant tissue responsible for the growth and repair of plant parts.
What is meristematic tissue?
The part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the anther or stamen?
The older, inner wood, in a woody stem, that no longer conducts water and minerals.
What is heartwood?
The group of algae that includes kelp, gulfweeds, and rockweeds.
What are brown algae?
Roots that have no main section but instead spread out with very thin roots forming a tangled mass.
What are fibrous roots?
The type of leaf that has more than one blade on a single petiole.
What is a compound leaf?
The spreading of seeds by the wind is an example of this type of dispersal.
What is agent dispersal?
The one-way diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
The group of alga that causes red tides.
What are dinoflagellates?
The type of flower that consists of disk flowers and ray flowers.
What is a composite flower?
The tissue that transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
What is xylem tissue?
An agricultural technician who specializes in growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, and shrubs.
What is a horticulturist?
The chemicals produced by plants that help regulate plant growth and development.
What are hormones?
The kingdom that includes species that have cells with cell walls and nuclei, and obtains its nutrients from other organisms.
What is the Kingdom Fungi?