Seeds
Naked Seeds
What is gymnosperm
Number of Cotyledons
What is one
Number of Cotyledons
What is two
Supports the flower and leaves
What is the stem
Two types of root systems
What are tap and fibrous
A carrot is this type of root
What is storage or tap
Consists of dead hollow tubes
What is Xylem
The first of germination
What is imbibition
Develops inside the fruit
What are seeds
Seed leaves
What are cotyledons
The most common type of plant cell-- fleshy fruit
What is parenchyma?
Produce little or no wood
What is herbaceous
Three functions of roots
What are: storage, anchorage, absorption, conduction and growth
Roots develop from this structure
What is the radicle
The process that moves water up a plant
What is transpiration
The swelling of the seed due to water absorption
What is imbibition
Embryonic root
What is radicle
The bump on top of a corn seed where the style (pollen tube) was attached
What is silk scar
The true leaves
What are epicotyls
The oldest part of the stem (old xylem)
What is heartwood
Roots found on other parts of the plant body
What are adventitious roots
The type of root system found in most grasses
What is fibrous
Two properties of water that aid capillary action
What are cohesion and adhesion
The first part to protrude from the seed
What is radicle
Small opening where pollen tube was attached in a bean seed
What is micropyle
Starchy area in corn that becomes the "popcorn"
What is endosperm
List three parts of the plant embryo
What are cotyledons, epicotyls, hypocotyls, radicle
Growth that increases plants length
What is primary growth
Small cone of cells that protects the end of roots
What are root caps
Small projections that increase the surface area and help with water uptake
What are root hairs
Moves sugars from source to sink
What is phloem
List two factors that affect germination
Water, sun, temp, pH, etc
Where the bean seed was attached to the pod
What is hilum
The pointy part of the corn seed that was once attached to the cob
What is pedicel
What structure germinates first from a seed
What is the radicle
Pattern of vascular tissue in a dicot
What is in a ring
Nodulation
What is the infection of bacteria that causes tumors where bacteria live and fix nitrogen
The pattern of vascular tissue in monocots
What is a ring
Little holes in phloem that help regulate sugar movement
What are Sieve tubes/plates
The affect of gravity on radicles/roots
What is geotropism