Tomato
Any plant of the family Leguminosae (Fabaceae), such as a bean, pea, or lentil; the name for the type of fruit produced by members of this family.
What is a legume?
A dry fruit that has one seed and a hard shell; cultivated as a food crop
What is a nut?
The raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans
What is agriculture?
A plant part that is used as food but that is not classified botanically as a fruit.
What is a vegetable?
A mature plant ovary; the plant organ in which the seeds are enclosed.
What is a fruit?
A plant that has true roots, stems, and leaves and a vascular system composed of xylem and phloem which are specialized tissues that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another
What is a vascular plant?
A reproductive cell or multicellular structure that is resistant to environmental conditions and that can develop into an adult without fusion with another cell
What is a spore?
A flowering plant that produces seeds within a fruit.
What is angiosperm?
A gene that regulates normal cell division but that can become a cancer-causing oncogene as a result of mutation or recombination
What is proto-oncogene?
A plant root or underground stem that is rich in carbohydrates and can serve as the major part of a diet.
What is a root crop?
Any grass that produces grains that can be used for food, such as rice, wheat, corn, oats, or barley?
What is cereal?
A woody, vascular seed plant whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit.
What is gymnosperm?
An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template
What is reverse transcriptase?
In alternation of generations, the phase in which gametes are formed; a haploid individual that produces gametes.
What is a gametophyte?
A plant embryo that is enclosed in a protective coat
What is a seed?
A method of viral replication in which a viral genome is replicated as a provirus without destroying the host cell
What is lysogenic cycle?
An organism that gets its energy from chemicals taken from the environment.
What is chemotroph?
In plants and algae that have alternation of generations, the diploid individual or generation that produces haploid spores.
What is a sporophyte?
The three groups of plants (liverworts, hornworts, and mosses) that lack specialized conducting tissues and true roots, stems, and leaves.
What is a nonvascular plant?
In vascular plants, the tissue that carries organic and inorganic nutrients in any direction, depending on the plants needs
What is phloem?
The type of tissue in vascular plants that provides support and conducts water and nutrients from the root.
What is xylem?
A method of vial replication that results in the destruction of a host cell and the release of many new virus particles.
What is lytic cycle?
An organism that can live with or without oxygen.
What is facultative anaerobe?
A potent, extracellular toxin secreted by some gram-positive bacteria
What is exotoxin?
An infectious particle that consists only of a protein and that does not contain DNA or RNA
What is a prion?