Plant Characteristics
This is the name for organisms that create their own food.
What is autotrophic?
These are the simplest plants.
What is moss.
The system of tissues that transport water, nutrients, and energy-rich compounds throughout a plant.
What is the vascular system?
Mosses and Ferns need this to reproduce.
What is water?
These were the first vascular plants.
What is ferns?
The tissues that carry water and dissolved minerals up from the roots.
What is xylem?
This houses the reproductive cells of mosses and ferns.
What is spore?
These are the two structures that plant cells have that animal cells do not.
What are chloroplasts and cell wall?
These plants reproduce with seeds, but not flowers or fruit.
What are gymnosperms?
The tissues that carry sugars from the leaves throughout the rest of the plant.
What is phloem.
This houses the sperm cells of gymnosperms and angiosperms.
What is pollen?
These are the most advanced plants and account for about 80% of all plants on Earth.
What are angiosperms?
The openings in leaves that allow carbon dioxide in and water and oxygen out.
What are stomata?
This is the GREATEST advantage of reproducing with seeds, especially true for angiosperms.
What is the seeds are carried far away from the parent plant?
In order, these are the least complex plant types to most complex plant types.
What are mosses, ferns, gymnosperm, and angiosperm?
The process of taking in carbon dioxide and releasing water vapor and oxygen is called this.
What is transpiration?
The meaning of photosynthesis in Greek.
What is: To make with light?
This is what the ovary of an angiosperm becomes.
What is a fruit?