Plant Families
This family presents their flowers in simple umbels and stores starch in their sheathing leaf bases.
What is Amaryllidaceae?
Plants are autotrophs and serve as the base of the food chain, largely being consumed by this trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
Plants like beets and carrots store starch in these.
What are taproots?
Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida are the plant Phyla that include these two types of plants.
What are monocots and dicots?
Prior to the evolution of vascular systems in plants, these small plants dominated the earth.
What are Bryophytes, such as moss and liverworts?
This family has separate male and female flowers and produces fruit with parietal placentation. Some species are eaten fresh and while others can be stored all winter.
What is Cucurbitaceae?
Plants provide glucose to members of this Kingdom in exchange for extended access to more moisture and nutrients in the soil.
What is the Fungal Kingdom?
Some plants, like; onions, lilies, and daffodils; spread asexually with these.
What are bulbs?
With binomial nomenclature, the scientific names of plants include these two components.
What are genus and species.
Prior to the evolution of seeds, these plants dominated the earth, some as large as trees?
What are ferns?
This family produces fruit that split open at maturity along two suture lines and have ovules with marginal placentation.
What is Fabaceae?
Plants in extremely arid environments often modify their leaves into these structures to prevent water loss.
What are spines?
Mangrove plants grow these to provide structural support and aid in the absorption of carbon dioxide in flooded environments.
What are pneumatophores?
A scientific name of an organism should be written with this kind of font.
What is italicized?
After the evolution of seeds and prior to the evolution of flowers, these plants dominated our forests.
What are gymnosperms, such as conifers?
This family is famous for delicious secondary metabolites and can spread laterally with stolons.
What is Lamiaceae?
Plants in this family are known for housing beneficial bacteria in root nodules that are able to fix nitrogen.
What is Fabaceae?
Plants, like orchids and pineapples, have arial roots to grow high up in trees without direct access to soil and are called this.
What are epiphytes?
This is the level of plant taxonomy that is grouped together by shared genes that code for shared floral morphological features.
What is Family?
The diversification of insect pollinators coincides with the diversification of these plants.
What are angiosperms?
This family often has non-showy flowers, is known for producing many seeds, and includes plants like; spinach, chard, beets, and quinoa.
What is Amaranthaceae?
Some plants are able to emit volotiles into the air that attract predators or parasitoids to combat against these.
What are herbivores?
Ginger and turmeric spread asexually with stiff underground stems called this.
What are rhizomes?
He is the father of modern taxonomy.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
This is the process that resulted in a free-living photosynthetic bacteria becoming incorporated as a chloroplast in a eukaryotic cell.
What is endosymbiosis?