The Circle of (plant) Life!
This is the part of the plant that anchors it in the ground and absorbs water
What are the Roots?
This is the gas that plants take in during photosynthesis
What is CO2?
This is what occurs during pollination.
What is the transfer of pollen from stamen to pistil?
This explains what an adaptation is.
What is a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
This explain what a mutation is.
What is a change in DNA?
This tissue carries water from roots to leaves
What is the Xylem?
This is the organelle that performs photosynthesis
What is the Chloroplast?
This is what the ovary of a flower develops into
What is a Fruit?
This is the type of leaves desert plants have to conserve water.
Thick, small, or spiny leaves.
This explains the three impacts mutations can have.
What is helpful, harmful, or neutral?
This tissue carries sugars made during photosynthesis
What is the Phloem
This is the equation for Photosynthesis.
CO₂ + H₂O + sunlight → C₆H₁₂O₆ + O₂
This is what the different M&M colors represent in the genetics lab
What are Alleles (gene versions)
This is what rainforest plants have that help them shed heavy rainfall.
What are Drip Tips?
This explains how a mutation can lead to an adaptation.
What is if the mutation helps survival, it gets passed on and becomes an adaptation.
This is the waxy coating on leaves that prevents water loss
What is the Cuticle?
This explain how respiration differs from photosynthesis.
What is respiration breaks down glucose for energy. Photosynthesis builds it using sunlight.
If R = red and r = yellow, this is the ratio of the phenotypes from Rr x Rr.
3 red : 1 yellow
This is why mangrove roots are shaped differently from typical roots
What is they allow gas exchange in flooded soils?
This explains natural selection.
What is the process where organisms with the best traits survive and reproduce?
This is an example of how plant structure follows function.
Up to teacher discretion
This is the Carbon Dioxide - Oxygen Cycle.
What is plants use CO₂ and release O₂ in Photosynthesis. Animals use O₂ and release CO₂ in Cellular Respiration.
This is how cross-pollination increases genetic diversity.
What is it combines genes from different plants, leading to more variation
This is an example of how structure reflects environment.
What are water lilies have large leaves that float for sunlight capture?
This explains how mutations, adaptations, and evolution are connected.
What is Mutations create new traits → some help survival → adaptations spread → populations evolve over generations.