Anatomy
On the inside wall of the ovary, a swelling begins to grow. The is the beginning of the ______________.
What is an ovule?
The stem that holds the flower.
What is a pedicel?
Protects the sexual organs as they form
What is the sepal?
Flowers that grow year after year.
What is a perennial?
A system of tube-shaped cells branching throughout a plant that transports materials between roots and shoots.
What is vascular tissue?
Allows for the dispersal of seeds away from the parent.
Pollen grains are formed and released here
What is the anther?
Male reproductive organ of the flower
What is the stamens?
What is pollination?
Mosses, hornworts and liverworts
What are bryophytes?
A "seed leaf" which develops as a part of the seed. It provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leg of the plant.
What is a cotyledon?
Flowers with either stamens or carpels, but not both
What are imperfect flowers?
Perfect flowers
What are flowers that have both reproductive organs?
Used by early American settlers to scour pots and pans
What is horsetail?
This produces spores by meiosis, and those are stored in sporangia. Sporangia are arranged on the underside of leaves.
What are ferns?
Have 3, 6, or 9 petals and usually 3-6 stamens
What is a monocot?
Female reproductive organ of a flower
What is the carpel?
Fertilization process that requires two sperm to fuse with two other cells
What is double fertilization?
Farmers use this to make their soil more fertile.
What can peat moss be used for?
What are pteridophytes?
There is at least one sperm cell and a tube nucleus.
What is in a pollen grain?
The carpel is composed of these
What are the stigma, style and ovary?
Three ways in which pollen is transferred from stamens of one plant to carpel of another
What are the wind, bees, beetles, birds, moths, or butterflies?
Has more cells prior to fertilization
Evergreens or conifers are the most common
What are gymnosperms?