Internal Stem
Tissue that conducts/transports water.
What are xylem?
The two types of stems.
What are woody and herbaceous?
Connects the leaf blade to the stem.
What is the petiole?
Have parallel veins.
What are monocots?
The number of major functions of the stem.
What is four?
Tissue found toward outside of stem.
What are phloem?
Small spots on the stem that allows for gas exchange.
What are lenticels?
The edge of the leaf blade.
What is the margin?
Types of Mesophyllic cells.
What are palisade and spongy?
An entire leaf margin lacks these.
What are teeth?
Xylem and phloem form a circular orientation.
What are dicots?
Bud at the end of the stem.
What is the terminal bud?
Conifer with leaves that overlap like shingles on a roof.
What are scale-like?
Number of varieties of netted veins found in dicots.
What are three?
This type of specialized stem is also called a runner.
What are stolons?
Xylem and phloem arranged in no particular order.
What are monocots?
Area between leaves.
What is the internode?
Portion of grass between the blade and the sheath.
What is the collar?
Control opening and closing of stomata.
What are guard cells?
The process of metabolizing sugar.
What is respiration?
This substance moves in ONLY ONE direction.
What is water?
Responsible for growth and length of the stem.
What is the apical meristem?
Outer most layer of the leaf.
What is the cuticle?
Reduce intensity of light by reflecting it.
What are trichomes?
Number of leaf bases with generally level or even bases.
What is eight?