Plant Structure
This type of stem is more flexible.
What is herbaceous?
The plant tissue that carries water from the roots to the leaves.
What is xylem?
This is caused by the presence of water inside the plant cells.
What is turgor pressure?
The growth response away from a factor.
What is negative tropism?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
The region of the stem where the leaf is or was attached.
This transports a sugar solution through the plant.
What is phloem?
The passage of water vapor out of the leaf through the stomata.
What is transpiration?
A growth response to light.
A type of plant hormone.
What is auxin?
The root system of grasses that consist of many nearly equal sized roots.
What are fibrous root systems?
Wood is a collection of this kind of cells.
The exchange of gases in the woody areas of plants takes place through these tiny openings in the bark.
What are lenticels?
A growth response to gravity.
What is gravitropism?
The tissues that make up the vein.
The three main plant organs.
What are stems, leaves, and roots?
Transpiration occurs through this structure of a plant.
What is the stomata?
A plants response to the length of time it is exposed to light.
What is photoperiodism?
What are nastic movements?
This part of the plant experiences negative gravitropism.
What is the stem?
Arrangements of xylem and phloem in leaves and nonwoody plants.
What are vascular bundles?
The part of the plants leaf where most photosynthesis takes place.
What is the palisade layer?
A plants response to light is controlled by these special pigments.
What are phytochromes?
The three parts of the annual growth ring.
What are springwood, summerwood, and xylem?