Vocab Words
Define and contrast, Perennial Plants vs Anual Plants
Perennial plants grow year after year whereas anual plants live for only one year
What is the function of chollenchyma?
Support
What controls the opening and closing of the stomata?
The guard cells
Name the four regions of a root?
root cap, meristematic region, elongation region, and the maturation region
What Phylum produces seed cones and pollen cones?
Coniferophyta
Parts of plants that are not involve in reproduction (stems, roots and leaves)
What is vegetative organs?
What is the function of the xylem and the phloem?
Transport water, minerals and nutrients
deltoid
In which region, do you find undifferentiated cells?
Meristematic region
Give an example of Bryophytes
Mosses
What is meristematic tissue?
anywhere that mitosis is going on. The cells that perform mitosis.
palisade mesophyll, spongy mesophyll, and epidermis
photosynthesis and protection
Entire, pinnate
Mention 3 functions of the roots
absorb water and nutrients, anchor plant, food storage
What are some characteristics or monocots
parallel venation, fibrous root systems, three or six flowers
What are reproductive plant organs and give examples?
Parts of a plant involve in reproduction, example flowers, fruit and seeds
Why is the bottom of a leaf generally lighter than the top of a leaf?
Because the spongy mesophyll is on the underside of the leaf and photosynthesis cells are not as tightly packet compare to the palisade mesophyll that are on top
What is the shape, margin and venation of 5f (p. 461)?
Chordate, entire, pinnate
What are the functions of a stem?
Support and manufacture leaves, conduct water and nutrients, carry on photosynthesis
Two cotyledons, taproot systems, four or five flowers
Pigments that can make a leaf's color different than green
Carotenoids and anthocyanins
Name the major parts of a leaf and mention which part attaches the leaf to the stem?
Stipules, petiole, blade and apex. The petiole attaches the leaf to the stem
Tell the shape, margin and venation of 5d? (p. 461)
Cleft, dentate, palmate.
What kind of vascular tissue makes up most of the wood in a woody stem? and What kind of vascular tissue is found in the inner bark?
The xylem makes most of the wood and phloem in the inner bark
To what phylum does a flower producing plant belongs to? Give some examples of these plants?
Anthophyta, any plants that has flowers :)