Morphology and Function
Low growing plants that live in moist environments where they can absorb water directly from their environment
Mosses, liverworts and or hornworts
Three types of seed dispersal.
By wind, by animal, by force scatter.
The female reproductive parts of the flower.
What is the pistil?
This structure carries water absorbed by the plants roots.
What is the xylem?
Nearly all plants are ________________, organisms that produce their own food.
What is an autotroph?
The ___________________ is the organelle of plants that provides food through the process of photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
After a seed is dispersed it may remain inactive before this occurs.
What is germination?
The hollow structure that protects the sees as they develop.
What is the ovary?
Tiny pores which close and open to release oxygen and water vapor.
What is a stomata ?
The two important traits all angiosperms share.
Production of flowers AND fruit.
A plant's fertilized egg cell.
What is a zygote ?
The ovule develops into a seed. The fertilized egg becomes the seeds _________________.
What is the embryo?
When a grain of pollen falls on a stigma.
What is pollination?
Food made by photosynthesis enters this structure to be transported throughout the plant.
What is the Phloem
Seed plants share these two important characteristics.
They have vascular tissue AND use pollen to reproduce.
in mosses the thin root like structures that anchor the plant and absorb water and nutrients from the soil.
What is a rhizoid?
In all seeds , the embryo has one or more seed leaves.
What is a cotyledon ?
_________________________ have reproduction structures called cones.
What is a gymnosperm?
The prosses by which water evaporates from a plants leaves.
What is transpiration?
___________________ are angiosperms that have only one seed leaf.
What are monocots ?
Spores are located on the underside of these fern leaves which are divided into many small parts?
What is a frond?
A layer of tree cells which divide to produce new xylem and phloem.
What is cambium?
Structure that produces pollen.
What is an anther?
The width of this structure can provide important clues about past weather conditions.
What are annual rings?
Besides conifers, the name of a type of gymnosperm.
Cycads, gingko, and gnetophytes.