Flowers
The primary purpose of a flower
What is making seeds for reproduction?
The primary function of a fruit
What is scattering seeds?
The cells at the center of a young woody stem that store water
What is the pith?
Growing a plant from something other than a seed
What is vegetative reproduction?
Where a leaf attaches or used to attach to a twig
What is a node?
A dry seed with wings
What is a samara?
Reproduction that does not involve the union of gametes
What is asexual reproduction?
The parts of the stamen
What are the anther and filament?
Scattering seeds by wind, water and animals
What is agent dispersal?
The outer protective layer consisting of cork and phloem
What is bark?
Stolons, rhizomes and bulbs
What are special stems?
The span of twig between nodes
What is an internode?
A seed with a hard shell
What is a nut?
A tree with several main branches relatively close to the ground
What is spreading branching?
The parts of the pistil
What are the stigma, style and ovary?
The parts of a seed embryo
What are the radicle, plumule and cotyledons?
Another name for wood
What is xylem?
Bundles of xylem and phloem in a herbaceous stem
What are vascular bundles?
The bud at the end of a twig
What is the terminal bud?
The fruit produced by grasses such as wheat
What is a grain?
A southern scientist known for his pioneering work in agriculture.
Who was George Washington Carver?
The four parts of a complete flower
What are the pistil, stamen, petals and sepals?
The part of the flower that develops into a fruit
What is the ovary?
The ring of xylem made of springwood and summerwood
What is an annual ring? or What is a growth ring?
The hard outer protective layer of a herbaceous monocot stem
What is a rind?
Buds found at nodes
What is a lateral bud?
A pod with seeds
What is a legume?
The diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane
What is osmosis?
The chief factor that determines when a plant flowers
What is photoperiodism? or What is the length of daylight and night?
A fruit that develops from one flower with one pistil
What is a simple fruit?
The inner xylem that no longer conducts sap
What is heartwood?
Layering, grafting and budding
What are methods of vegetative propagation?
Small openings in the bark that allow gas exchange
What are lenticels?
A fruit that has a fleshy, juicy ovary through out
What is a berry?
The growth response of a plant to a stimulus such as gravity?
What is a tropism?
The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma
What is pollination?
The part of the embryo that develops into the root system
What is the radicle?
The outer xylem that actively conducts sap
What is sapwood?
An enlarged underground stem that stores food for a plant, such as a potato
What is a tuber?
A fruit with an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer
What is a drupe?
Roots that go deep in the soil with few secondary roots
What is a taproot?
The fusing of the sperm and ovule
What is fertilization?
The sprouting of a seed
What is germination?
A fruit with an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core
What is a pome?
Tiny projections that grow from the epidermis of a root and absorb water?
What are root hairs?