Plants
The study of living things
What is biology?
A seed leaf that provides food for a developing embryo until it can produce its own
What is a cotyledon?
The broad flat portion of a leaf
What is the blade?
Organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis
What are producers or autotrophs?
Producing seeds for reproduction
What is the purpose of a flower?
The pressure inside a plant cell produced by the water in the central vacuole
What is turgor pressure?
Protecting seeds and helping to scatter them
What is the purpose of a fruit?
Another name for germination
What is sprouting?
The study of plants
What is botany?
A plant with long narrow leaves and parallel venation
What is a monocot?
Openings on the underside of a leaf that allow gases to enter and exit the leaf
What are stomata?
The single most important factor affecting photosynthesis
What is sunlight?
The single most important factor affecting flowering
What is length of day and night?
Caused by a lack of water pressure in the plant's cells
What is wilting?
The spreading of seeds by wind, water and animals
What is agent dispersal?
Prior to sprouting seeds must receive adequate
What is water?
A root system with one main root that is thicker with little side branching
What is a taproot
What is a dicot?
The outer covering of a leaf that protects
What is the epidermis?
A small organelle in plant cells that contains chlorophyll for photosynthesis
What is a chloroplast?
A flower that lacks one of the 4 main parts
What is an incomplete flower?
The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma
What is pollination?
A simple fruit with an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer (stone)
What is a drupe?
The part of the seed embryo that develops into the root system
What is the radicle?
A root system that has no main root, but instead has many smaller roots
What are fibrous roots?
A plant with broad leaves and branching venation
What is a dicot?
A leaf with more than one blade per petiole
What is a compound leaf?
Growth and repair tissue found in the stem and root tips
What is meristematic tissue?
The female reproductive organ consisting of the stigma, style and ovary
What is the pistil?
The uniting of a sperm from the pollen with an ovule in the ovary
What is fertilization?
A simple fruit consisting of a pod with seeds
What is a legume?
The part of the seed embryo that develops into the shoot system
What is the plumule?
A flower that consists of ray and disk flowers
What is a composite flower?
A plant whose flower petals grow in multiples of 3
What is a monocot?
A leaf venation pattern that consists of one main vein called the midrib, with side veins
What is pinnate?
The process that breaks down an energy source to release usable energy
What is cellular respiration?
The parts of the stamen
What are the anther and filament?
In the autumn, a break down in this pigment leads to the change of colors in the leaves
What is chlorophyll?
The part of the flower that develops into the fruit
What is an ovary?
The most important family of plants that feeds the world
What are the grasses?
A tree or shrub that sheds its leaves each fall
What is deciduous?
A layer of cells that forms in the fall creating a barrier between the petiole and the stem
What is the abscission layer?
The part of the flower where all the different parts come together
What is the receptacle?