Root
This anchors the plant to the ground and supplies water and minerals to the plant.
What is a root?
A plant grows from this.
What is a seed?
The ___ of a plant connects its leaves and flowers to its roots.
What is a stem?
A ____ is a mature, ripened ovary.
What is a fruit?
_______ roots grow from the side of taproots.
What are lateral roots?
The ______ is the beginning of a new plant. It grows into a plant when the seed germinates.
What is an embryo?
The ________ ___ forms at the end of the shoot tip. In stems that live over the winter, the ________ ___ is covered and protected by bud scales
What is a terminal bud?
The _______ is the skin of the fruit, the outside layer. it is thin tough and waterproof.
What is an exocarp?
A _____ perennial is a perennial that lives through freezing weather.
What is hardy?
These form on the roots of legumes and a few other kinds of plants. They take nitrogen gas from the air and change it into a form the plant can use. In turn, the plant gives them shelter and gives them sugars.
What are root nodules?
The ____ ____ is the outer covering of the seed. It protects the embryo from drying out.
What is a seed coat?
The ____ ____ is the angle formed between the stem and a leaf that attaches to it.
What is a leaf axil?
The ________ is the middle layer of the fruit wall.
A ______ perennial is a plant that will live many seasons, provided it grows where there is no frost.
What is tender?
What is a root cap?
The ______ ____ feeds the young plant when the seed germinates.
What is stored food?
The _____ ___ is the end of the stem near the terminal bud.
The _______ is all of the wall of the fruit.
What is a pericarp?
A __________ is a plant that lives three or more years after it comes up from seed.
What is a perennial?
These take in most of the water and minerals that the plant needs. ____ ____ grow from the section of the root that is above the region of elongation.
What are root hairs?
The ____ ______ of the bean hold the stored food for the embryo.
What are seed leaves?
The _________ is the length of stem between two nodes.
What is an internode?
The ________ is the inner layer of the fruit wall.
What is the endocarp?
__________ _____________ happens when a new plant grows from a piece of an existing plant.
What is vegetative reproduction?