Vocabulary 1
the leafless underground part of a plant that absorbs water and minerals, stores food, and holds the plant in place
What is a root?
A plant part that produces seeds
What is a flower?
to place in the ground to grow (verb)
Define "germinate"
What is sprout? (or begin to grow)
a small growth at the tip or on the side of a stem that later develops into a flower, leaf, or branch
What is a bud?
One of the often brightly colored leaflike outer parts of a flower
What is a petal?
a young plant, especially one raised from seed and not from a cutting
What is photosynthesis?
A group of plants that are able to form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria called rhizobia
What is legume?
The enlarged basal portion of the pistil where ovules are produced.
What is the ovary?
Organelle in a plant cell that makes it possible to photosynthesize
What is Chloryphyll?
Group of plants classified together because they die at the end of each season.
What is an annual?
Parts of the stem that transfer water and nutrients
what is xylem and phloem?
one of the specialized leaves that form the calyx of a flower
What is a septal?
A branch of biology dealing with plants
What is Botany?
the process of distributing very fine usually yellow dust that is from a plant and that is carried to other plants of the same kind usually by wind or insects
What is pollination?
A plant who's seeds contain an embryo with two cotyledons, one main tap root, and floral organs usually arranged in multiples of four or five
What is Dicot?
the stalk of a plant stamen that bears the anther
What is filament?
Daily Double!
Having leaflets arranged on either side of the stem, typically in pairs opposite each other.
Pinnate
The type of reproduction that involves flowers
What is asexual reproduction?