Nutrient Experiment
This essential nutrient is primarily responsible for leaf growth and the green color in plants.
What is nitrogen?
The study of plants is called...
What is botany
This type of key is used to identify organisms by choosing between two characteristics at each step.
What is a dichotomous key?
A deficiency in this nutrient causes plants to have poor root development and purple-colored leaves.
What is phosphorous?
This green pigment is responsible for absorbing sunlight in plants.
What is chlorophyll?
A dichotomous key helps scientists and students identify organisms based on these.
What are observable characteristics?
This mineral deficiency leads to weak stems and curled leaves in plants.
What is calcium?
When creating a dichotomous key, each choice should lead to this.
What is the next pair of choices or the identification of the organism?
These two types of plants can be distinguished by the number of seed leaves or cotyledons.
What are monocots and dicots?
Plants with this mineral deficiency often exhibit yellowing between veins on older leaves.
What is magnesium?
This process occurs in the mitochondria and produces ATP for the plant.
What is cellular respiration?
One rule for creating a dichotomous key is that each step should contain this number of choices.
What is two?
Nonvascular plants do not have these structures to transport water.
What are xylem and phloem?
The animal pollinator that is attracted to the color red.
Explain why a sulfur deficiency might cause stunted growth in plants.
What is poor protein formation and enzyme function?
When plants release water vapor through their leaves, it is known as this.
What is transpiration?
Dichotomous keys are especially useful for identifying organisms in large, diverse groups because...
What is because they help narrow down options systematically using specific characteristics?
Describe two differences between monocots and dicots.
What are: monocots have one cotyledon, parallel veins, and fibrous roots; dicots have two cotyledons, net-like veins, and a taproot?