Challenges of Plants
This is the number of challenges plants had to deal with when moving onto land.
What is four?
What is the number 3?
This is the number of flower petals (or multiple of) on a eudicot.
What is 4 or 5?
Peaches, coconuts and other fruit with stony layer are known as these type of fleshy fruits.
What is a Drupe?
This function of roots also shares the name of a famous tool often used on ships.
What is anchoring or to anchor?
This is the force that forced plants to adapt the way they were built in order to be able to function despite this force.
What is gravity?
This is the type of root system commonly found on monocot plants.
What is a fibrous root system?
This is the pattern of the leaf veins in the leafs of eudicot.
What is web-like or net-like?
Hesperidium have this texture of exocarp (i.e. limes, lemons, etc.)
What is leathery?
These are the four primary functions of roots in a plant.
What is anchoring, absorption, storage, and vegitative reproduction and competition?
This is the challenge that deals with a plant's ability to keep levels of a substance vital for plants' food production.
What is maintaining water levels?
Monocots only contain one of these which is where the name monocot stems from.
What is a cotyledon?
Most of the plants that produce these are eudicots.
What is fruit or food bearing trees?
This is the tissue that most fruit forms from.
What is ovaries?
This is the type of root most commonly associated with eudicots.
What is a tap root system?
This is the challenge that plants faced that was addressed with roots, and lignin to reinforce cell walls.
These are the two easily distinguishable traits that can be used to identify a monocot at first sight.
What is flower petals in multiples of 3 and leaf veins running parrellel to each other.
Apple trees produce apples which contain apple seeds. By the shape of these seeds, it is apparent that these seeds contain two of these.
What is cotyledons?
Fruit is divided into fleshy and dry fruits. Dry fruits are further subdivided into these two catergories.
What is Dehiscent and Indehiscent dry fruits?
What is store nutrients and energy mostly in the form of carbohydrates and starches?
These are the four challenges plants had to address when moving from a marine to a terrestrial environment.
What is water control, Support, Obtaining resources, and Reproduction and dispersal of offspring.
A flower has been mutilated and the number of flower petals and the leaf vein shape cannot be determined. These other features may help you idenitfy that it is a monocot.
What is one cotyledon and vascular bundles in the stem distrubuted randomly throughout the flower?
The vascular tissue bundles in the stem of these plants is arranged in this pattern.
What is a circular patter?
These are the two primary reasons for the adaptation of producing fruit.
What is to protect the seeds from the elements and to serve as an aid in seed dispersal?
This type of root is not a true root but instead comes from the stem of the plant. It serves to provide and environmental advantage over competing species.
What is adventitious roots?