Intro to Botany
What is botany?
The study of plants.
______ plants do not have stems, roots, or leaves.
Nonvascular
T/F: Inside every seed a tiny dormant (sleeping) living thing.
True
What is the one of most important functions of plants to help humans?
Producing oxygen.
Monocots have how many cotyledons?
1
Scientists who study plants are called _________?
Botanists
______ plants have tubes that carry liquid inside the plant.
Vascular
What are the biggest part of the seed embryo?
Cotyledons
Plants can be used for _____?
Fiber. Fuel. Construction.
Dicots have how many cotyledons?
2
Botanists study things in the kingdom _____.
Plantae or plants
What is the midrib?
The thick vein that carries water from the stem to the smaller veins in the leaf.
What is the embryo’s root called?
Radicle
How can plants help animals?
_____ has leaves with veins that grow upward and has flowers in multiples of 3.
Monocot
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Botanist who experiments in breeding garden peas which led to his recognition as founder of the science of genetics.
What carries sugar and other chemicals down the plant?
Phloem
What will the stem be called?
Hypocotyl
Plants can be used as _____ which resulted in many lives being saved.
Medicine
____ has veins that branch from a thick midrib and flowers with multiples of 4 or 5.
Dicot
Photosynthesis
What carries water and chemicals up the plant?
Xylem
What do you call the top of the embryo that holds the plumule that will become the first true leaves of the plant?
Epicotyl
Plants use photosynthesis to capture what?
Carbon Dioxide
What do you call plants that make seeds?
Angiosperms