Plant Tissues
A leaf has palisade mesophyll on the top. Which side of the leaf will be lighter green?
What is the bottom?
The leaf's veins all branch from the midrib.
What is pinnate venation?
The plant type (monocot or dicot) whose vascular bundle looks like a face.
What are monocots?
The study of plants.
What is Botany?
This is the kingdom plants are in.
Plantae
This plant tissue other than vascular and the dermal tissue.
What is ground tissue?
This is an triangular leaf shape
What is deltoid?
This is the primary root that grows down in the soil.
What is a taproot.
A plant that looses its leaves for winter
What is a deciduous plant?
Plants that grow year after year.
What are perennial plants?
This connects a single layer that covers and protects.
What is dermal tissue?
Gives leaves a red or purple color.
What are anthocyanins?
Why is the bark of a tree is often cracked?
The stem continues to grow and breaks the bark when it needs more space.
Part of the plant not involved in reproduction.
What are vegetative organs?
Trees that produce cones are a member of this phyla.
What is Coniferophyta?
This tissue consists of living vascular tissue that moves sugar and organic substances throughout the plant.
What is the phloem?
Leaf margin with tiny, sharp teeth that point to the leaf's apex.
What is serrate?
Dark and light rings on a tree stem that can be used to age a tree.
What are annual growth rings?
Cells that open and close the stomata
What are guard cells?
This plant phyla does not have vascular tissue.
What is Bryophytes (mosses)
This is composed of undifferentiated cells.
What is meristematic tissue?
Causes the leaf to die and fall off in deciduous plants
What is the abscission layer?
The region of the root where root hairs are produced.
What is the maturation region?
Large clumps of sporangia seen on the bottom of fern leaves.
What are sorri?
Name 2 differences between monocots and dicots
1 vs 2 cotyledon, fibrous vs tap roots, parallel vs net leaf venation, 3 vs 4,5 flower petals, vascular bundles in stem complex or in a ring