Daily Gardener
A pigment that gives plants their green color.
chlorophyll
Carrots have what kind of root system?
Taproot
This part of flower is a part of the stamen and contains the pollen.
Anther
Name one reason an animal would have an adaptation.
Weather, predators, help reproduction etc.
This person earned their nickname for making major contributions to the study of heredity.
Mendel
A plant structure that is made up of xylem and phloem.
What is one way that plants reproduce that is with pollen?
Spores
The flower parts that contain the stigma, the style, and the ovary.
The pistil.
The bird of paradise does this to attract mates
do a lil dancey dance
The physical expression of the allele.
Phenotype
The kind of plant that produces seeds enclosed in a fruit.
Angiosperm
Mosses, Hornworts, and Liverworts ae examples of this type of plant.
Nonvascular plants
Grasses have parallel leaf veins, scattered vascular bundles, and flowers in multiples of 3s. What is this type of angiosperm?
Monocot
Desert plants have this kind of adaptation to help prevent water loss.
Spikes, small leaves
A tool that people use to help understand probability of genetics.
Plants lose water through their leaves during this process of the water cycle.
transpiration
This process allows plant to create their own food, so they can stay where they are planted.
Photosynthesis
What role does a pollinator play in the life cycle of a plant?
Disperse the pollen
Give an example of a plant or animal adaptation that has not been mentioned
yes!
If an organisms expresses the recessive phenotype what is their genotype?
Homozygous recessive, aa
The part of the leaf that controls when gas enters and leaves the cells.
Stomata
Tall trees like gymnosperms use these to protect their seeds.
Pinecones
This part of the flower creates a pollen tube to aid with fertillization.
Pollen
An organisms gets an adaptation from a change in what?
genetics
An organism that shows the blend of two phenotypes.
Incomplete dominance