Cells
The powerhouses of cells.
What are mitochondria?
The type of tissue making up xylem and phloem.
What is vascular?
A plant whose seeds are processed to make chocolate.
What is cacao?
The location on a stem from which a leaf grows.
What is a node?
The flattened part of a leaf.
What is the blade?
A cell structure unique to plant cells.
What is a cell wall?
(Also will accept plastid/chloroplast, large central vacuole, or plasmodesmata.)
The process by which cells become specialized for a certain function.
What is differentiation?
A deep pit filled with manure and covered with wooden trays for growing fruit.
What is a pineapple stove?
What is primary growth?
The stalk of a leaf.
What is a petiole?
The green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
The type of meristem tissue found at the tips of roots and shoots.
What is apical meristem?
A devastating event in the mid-1800s caused by the plant disease Phytophthera infestans.
What is the Irish potato famine?
A bud containing apical meristem at the tip of a branch.
What is a terminal bud?
A leaf whose blade is separated into smaller leaflets.
What is a compound leaf?
The fluid material inside the plasma membrane that contains all of the molecules and structures of the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
Tissue that protects plants from water loss and pest damage.
What is dermal tissue?
An herb that comes from the flower Crocus sativus.
What is saffron?
A modified main stem of a plant that grows horizontally underground or just at the soil surface.
What is a rhizome?
Pores of a leaf controlled by guard cells.
What are stoma? (or stomata)
The red-, orange-, and yellow-colored plastids found in the flowers, fruits, and leaves of plants that turn colors in the fall.
What are chromoplasts?
The three types of cells that make up ground tissue.
What are parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma?
A plant liquid used during World War II as a sterile IV drip for wounded soldiers.
What is coconut water?
The location of cell division that results in secondary stem growth.
What is vascular cambium?
The main photosynthetic region of a plant.
What is mesophyll?