Vocab 1
What is Botany?
Scientific study of plants
Cell
Smallest unit of life
Why are plants considered vitally important to the world?
They start most food and energy chains
The shoot and root systems together make up the:
Plant
The nucleolus is the site of:
Autotrophic
Organism that is capable of creating its own food.
Nucleus
Central control center of the cell
Most plants are classified as:
Multicellular eukaryotes
Who first observed cork and called the chambers “cells”?
Robert Hooke
The membrane surrounding the central vacuole is called the:
Tonoplast
Ethnobotany
Focus on knowledge and use of plants for food, medicine etc
Ribosome
Protein synthesizing structure
Plants belong to which domain and kingdom?
Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Plantae
What are the three statements of cell theory
All cells come from cells
Cells are the smallest unit of life
All living things are made up of cells
Which type of meristem allows a plant to grow in length?
Apical
Molecular Biology
Study of biological processes and interactions of molecules
Chloroplast
Organelle that performs photosynthesis
Approximately how many plant species have been named so far?
400,000
As a cell increases in size, its surface area-to-volume ratio:
Increases or decreases
Decreases
Which ground tissue type is dead and provides support in older plant organs?
Sclerenchyma
Systematic botanist
studies the diversity of plants and evolutionary relationships.
Central Vacuole
Large organelle that stores water, waste and nutrients.
Plant cell walls are primarily made of:
Cellulose
Water moves across a semipermeable membrane by:
Osmosis
Protists that conduct photosynthesis and are autotrophic are collectively called:
Algae