Plant Groups
These are non-vascular plants, like mosses, that lack deep roots and visual stems.
What are bryophytes?
This group is known as the "naked seed" plants because they do not produce fruit.
What are gymnosperms?
This term refers to the first embryonic leaf or leaves produced by a seed.
What is a cotyledon?
This term describes a plant life cycle that alternates between haploid and diploid phases.
What is alternation of generations?
This plant organ is the primary site for photosynthesis.
What is the leaf?
This specialized tissue acts like a plumbing system to move water and food.
What is vascular tissue? (Accept xylem and phloem).
This is the dominant reproductive structure used by angiosperms.
What is a flower?
Monocots typically display this type of vein pattern in their leaves.
What is parallel?
This is the multicellular, spore-producing diploid phase of a plant.
What is the sporophyte?
This specific part of the flower's stamen produces the pollen grains.
What is the anther?
These are the first vascular plants to evolve, which reproduce using spores instead of seeds.
What are ferns? (Accept pteridophytes).
Gymnosperms rely almost exclusively on this environmental factor for pollination.
What is wind?
This type of plant has floral parts that usually occur in multiples of four or five.
What is a dicot? (Accept eudicot).
Plants that complete their entire life cycle from seed to death in just one growing season.
What are annuals?
This type of tissue consists of actively dividing cells responsible for plant growth.
What is meristematic tissue? (Accept meristem).
This waxy coating on leaves prevents water loss in land plants.
What is the cuticle?
This structure develops from the ovary of a flower to protect and disperse seeds.
What is fruit?
Unlike the scattered bundles in monocots, dicot stems arrange their vascular tissue in this shape.
What is a ring?
This haploid phase produces the male and female gametes through mitosis.
What is the gametophyte?
This is the female reproductive structure of a flower, containing the stigma, style, and ovary.
What is the pistil? (Accept carpel).
This rigid polymer strengthens cell walls, allowing vascular plants to grow tall.
What is lignin?
This specific type of gymnosperm keeps its leaves year-round and bears cones.
What is a conifer?
Dicots develop a deep main taproot, whereas monocots develop this highly branched root system.
What is a fibrous root system?
This unique angiosperm process involves two sperm cells; one fertilizes the egg, the other creates food storage.
What is double fertilization?
In the hierarchy of biological classification, plants belong to this specific Domain.
What is Eukarya?