Plant Diversity
This is the group of plants that encompasses all flowering plants.
What are angiosperms?
This structure is responsible for water and nutrient absorption.
What is the root?
This is the fruit that went to the supreme court due to a controversy on taxing vegetables vs. fruit.
What is a tomato?
This is the main hormone in plants that is involved in stem bending, leaf abscission, and apical dominance.
What is auxin?
A group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and pines.
What are gymnosperms?
This is the general structure in a plant that provides structural support, and transports water, nutrients, and sugar throughout the plant.
What is the stem?
Celery is a modified version of this structure of the plant.
What is a stem?
This happens to the cells where auxin accumulates in a stem.
What is cell elongation?
This is the oldest group of plants that includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
What are bryophytes?
This vascular tissue transports water in only one direction.
What is xylem?
An onion is a modified version of this structure of the plant.
What is a leaf?
This happens to the cells where auxin accumulates in a root.
What is cell inhibition/shortening?
This group of plants evolved to have vascular tissue and includes all ferns.
What are pterophytes?
This vascular tissue is responsible for transporting sugar in two directions.
What is phloem?
This is an underground modified stem.
What is a potato?
This is the general term for when plants bend with or against gravity.
What is gravitropism?
This is the group of plants that has the most diversity.
What are angiosperms?
These are two processes that the leaf does.
What is gas exchange and photosynthesis?
Fruit are derived from this part of the flower.
What is an ovary?
What is phototropism?