Gymnosperm
These plants are often called evergreens and bear their seeds inside these hard, woody structures.
What are cones?
What is the wind?
From lawns to wheat fields, this single word describes the most widespread family of monocots on Earth.
What is grass?
This prefix at the start of "dicot" indicates that the plant's seed sprouts with two embryonic leaves.
What is di-?
Unlike perennials, an annual plant completes its entire life cycle—from seed to flower to death—within this specific length of time
What is one year?
Gymnosperm literally translates to this 2-word phrase because their seeds are exposed rather than enclosed inside a fruit.
What is naked seed?
Angiosperms often use bright petals and sweet nectar to attract these helpful creatures, like bees and butterflies.
What are pollinators?
is prefix at the start of "monocot" tells you that the plant's seed contains exactly one embryonic leaf.
What is mono-?
Unlike the parallel veins of monocots, dicot leaves feature this webbed, net-like pattern of veins.
What is netted?
A biennial plant requires exactly this number of growing seasons to complete its entire biological life cycle before dying.
What is two?
This needle-leafed gymnosperm is the most popular choice used globally for Christmas trees.
What is a pine tree?
This yellow, powdery substance contains the plant's male reproductive cells and must travel to a female part to make a seed.
What is pollen?
Unlike dicots, which have webbed or net-like veins, monocots are famous for this type of vein arrangement that runs straight from base to tip.
What is parallel?
Dicots typically anchor themselves with this type of root system, featuring one large, deep central root like a carrot.
What is a taproot?
During its very first year, a biennial typically grows a low, ground-hugging cluster of leaves known by this floral, circular name.
What is a rosette?
Instead of relying on insects or birds, gymnosperms rely heavily on this environmental force to pollinate their cones.
What is the wind?
In a gymnosperm, the small male cones make the pollen, while these larger, woody cones contain the ovules to grow the actual seeds.
What are female cones ?
Instead of a deep, central taproot, monocots anchor themselves using this shallow, wide-spreading network of roots.
What is a fibrous root system?
If you count the petals on a dicot flower like a geranium, they will usually be in multiples of these two numbers.
What are four and five?
In its second spring, a biennial rapidly shoots up a tall, flower-bearing stem in this high-speed botanical process
what is bolting?
This unique, fan-leafed gymnosperm is considered a living fossil with only one surviving species left on Earth.
What is the Ginkgo?
This is the process that happens right after pollination, when the male pollen cell joins with the female egg cell inside the seed
What is fertilization?
If you count the petals on a classic monocot flower like a lily, they will almost always be in multiples of this number.
What is three?
Look inside a dicot stem and you will find the vascular bundles arranged in this neat, orderly geometric shape.
What is a ring?
This common, tall biennial garden flower produces bell-shaped blooms that are a source of digitalis, a powerful heart medication.
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