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?
A plants response to the length of time it is exposed to light.
What is photoperiodism?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
The region of the stem where the leaf is or was attached.
Arrangements of xylem and phloem in leaves and nonwoody plants.
What are vascular bundles?
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?
Plant cells have _______ and _______.
What are plastids and cell walls?
This transports a sugar solution through the plant.
What is phloem?
The exchange of gases in the woody areas of plants takes place through these tiny openings in the bark.
What are lenticels?
Plants that bloom when nights are long are called this.
What are short-day plants?
The tissues that make up the vein.
The _______ is the growth region in plants.
What is the vascular cambium?
This is a component of plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
Transpiration occurs through this structure of a plant.
What is the stomata?
The growth response away from a factor.
What is negative tropism?
What are nastic movements?
Where stomata are found.
What is the lower epidermis?
A plant might suffer excessive water loss if a plant's __________ malfunction.
What are guard cells?
The part of the plants leaf where most photosynthesis takes place.
What is the palisade layer?
A growth response to gravity.
What is gravitropism?
The three parts of the annual growth ring.
What are springwood, summerwood, and xylem?