Roots
A thick main root that has much smaller branch roots.
What is a tap root?
A reproductive cell that is capable of growing into a new organism or structure without uniting with another cell.
What is a spore?
A plant structure containing all of a flower's petals.
What is a corolla?
The plant system that transports water and minerals from the the roots to the leaves.
What is xylem?
The kingdom that includes asters, ferns, oaks, and mosses.
What is the plant kingdom? (or Plantae)
A root system that produces many fine roots of similar diameter.
What is a fibrous root system?
The number of seed leaves in a dicot seed.
What is two?
What is an anther?
A flower containing multiple ray flowers and/or disc flowers.
What is a composite flower?
A Swedish naturalist who streamlined a naming system for organisms in the 1750s.
Who was Carl Linnaeus?
The very tip of the root that provides protection to the apical meristem.
What is the root cap?
A seed leaf.
Stigma, style, ovary.
What are a flower's female parts? (or gynoecium)
A tree whose sharp, skinny buds were used as toothpicks.
What is beech?
The level of classification of organisms that includes Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.
What is domain?
Roots produced from a plant organ other than the root.
What are adventitious roots?
The structure that emerges from a dicot seed to form the primary root.
What is a radicle?
The term for the position of a flower's ovary if the calyx and corolla are attached to the receptacle underneath the ovary.
What is a superior ovary?
A wetland sedge native to Africa that has been used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
A streamlined system for naming organisms that includes just two words for each species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
What is the region of differentiation? (or maturation)
A seed structure that provides food for a growing monocot embryo.
What is endosperm?
The entire whorl of a flower's female parts.
What is gynoecium?
The type of tissue that makes up the bulk of a plant.
What is ground tissue?
Organizational "trees" drawn by scientists using computer programs based on observations of organisms' structure, chemistry, and gene sequences.
What are phylogenetic trees?