Vocabulary
Fill in the blank: "If you have __________ the size of a mustard seed," the Lord said, "you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you." Luke 17:6
What is faith?
The process of a seed sprouting into a plant
What is germination?
The seed's "coat"
What is testa?
A plant whose seed has one cotyledon
What is monocotyledon or monocot?
This is the biggest part of the embryo. It absorbs the baby plant food (called endosperm) and stores it for the baby plant to eat once it starts growing.
What is cotyledon?
When a baby plant wakes up and begins to grow into a little plant, it is called this.
What is a seedling?
This is the first thing out of the seed. It usually grows downward in search of water.
What is the radicle?
The baby plant inside the seed (This word is used for humans as well)
What is an embryo?
A plant whose seed has two cotyledons
What is a dicotyledon or dicot?
The main ingredient in baby plant food
What is sugar?
When a seed absorbs water through its seed coat
What is imbibition?
The hypocotyl and epicotyl usually grow in this direction because they need to break through the dirt to reach the surface.
What is straight up?
This will become the root of the plant
What is the radicle?
The veins of this category of plants branch out from a thick, center midrib. Also, their flowers may have 4 or 8 petals (multiples of 4).
What are dicots?
The food the baby plant eats?
What is endosperm?
A sleeping baby plant may be described as this
What is dormant?
During germination, the cotyledons can look a lot like leaves, but they are not "true" leaves. They are called ______ leaves.
What are seed leaves?
This will become the stem of the plant
What is the hypocotyl?
The veins of this category of plant run upward from the bottom to the top of the leaf (rather than branching out from a thick, center midrib). Also, the flowers usually have 3,6, or 9 petals (multiples of 3).
What are monocots?
Living things that eat other parts of God's creation (like plants and/or animals) to live
What are consumers?
A seed is a package containing these 3 things
What is...
1) baby plant (embryo)
2) food for the baby plant
3) protective covering
This will become the first true leaves of the plant
What is the plumule?
This is the top of the embryo. The plumule is attached to this.
What is the epicotyl?
The veins of this category of plants branch out from a thick, center midrib. Also, their flowers may have 5 or 10 petals (multiples of 5).
What are dicots?
Living things that make their own food. (They do not eat other plants and animals)
What are producers?