Plant Characteristics
Green pigment found in plants, algae, and bacteria
What is chlorophyll?
Plants that have xylem and phloem
What are vascular plants?
What is the sun?
The outer covering of a seed
What is a seed coat?
The female reproductive part of the flower
What is the pistil?
An organism that produces its own food
What is an autotroph?
Seed plants that produce naked seeds that are not enclosed by a protective fruit
What are gymnosperms?
The gas used in photosynthesis to make food for plants
What is carbon dioxide?
Food for the seed
What is the cotyledon?
The male reproductive part of the flower
What is the stamen?
A large sac that stores food, water, and waste
What is a vacuole?
Plants that have only one seed leaf
What are monocots?
Done by bees, birds, and other insects
The reproductive structure of an angiosperm
What is a flower?
Leaf-like structures that enclose the budding flower
What are sepals?
Structures in which food is made
What are chloroplasts?
A plant named for a human organ that grows as a thick crust on moist rocks or soil
What is a liverwort?
When the embryo grows and pushes out of the seed
What is germination?
Tiny structures that contain the cells that will later become sperm cells
What is pollen?
The part of the flower that protects the seeds as they develop
What is the ovary?
A material that makes cell walls rigid
What is cellulose?
A spore producing plant that has fronds
Water leaves a plant's stomata
What is transpiration?
The type of reproduction that plants engage in
What is sexual reproduction?
The part of the male reproductive structure that contains the pollen
What is the anther?