Plant Cells
What is a cell?
The basic building block of life.
Non-vascular and vascular
Non-vascular plants are most often found in this type of environment?
Moist or wet environment.
Where do vascular plants grow?
Almost everywhere.
What makes a plant a plant?
the ability to make its own food through a process called photosynthesis.
What type of cells do plants have?
Prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
eukaryotic. Cells which contain nucleuses.
The sorting of living things into categories is called what?
Classification
Non-vascular plants do not have stems or________.
Roots.
Vascular plants have leaves, stems, and _________.
Roots.
What is photosynthesis?
The process by which a plant makes its own food, whereby plants use the energy from sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar. Photo means light and synthesis means make.
The biggest difference between a plant and animal cell is this feature of the plant cell.
Cell wall
In addition the plant kingdom, other kingdoms of life that we classify include these:
the animal kingdom, fungi, protists, and monera.
Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts are examples of what type of plant?
Non-vascular.
The xylem and phloem tissues of the vascular system of these plants helps to carry what substances?
Water, food, and minerals.
Plants are:
unicellular
or multicellular?
multicellular
The green organelles inside a plant cell called chloroplasts contain which substance?
chlorophyll, the substance responsible for making plants green.
Plants with seeds and seedless plants.
Unlike most plants, moss reproduce using what cell division process?
Mitosis
or
Meiosis?
Meiosis.
The vast majority of plants fall into which classification:
vascular
or
nonvascular?
vascular
Because plants make their own food, scientists classify them as:
consumers
or
producers?
producers
Most plant cells divide by which cell division process?
Mitosis (the splitting in half of a cell)
or
Meiosis (sexual division of a cell)
Mitosis
Who is the most famous scientist who endeavored to create a system of classification for biology. He suggested that each species should have a two-word latin name, like people have first and last names. Latin was chosen as the language of science as no one actually spoke it. This two-name system is called binomial nomenclature. Who is the scientist responsible for this system?
Carl Linnaeus
Unlike vascular plants, which take in water through their "pipes," non-vascular plants have to take in water directly through their cell walls. What is this process called?
Osmosis. This process can be likened to the way a sponge takes in water.
Non-vascular plants need a lot of direct contact with water in order to absorb the water directly through their cells. Vascular plants, on the other hand, do not need as much direct contact with water, because of this system that carries the water throughout the plant.
The vascular system, more specifically the water transporting system called the xylem.
Not all plants are green.
True or false?
True