Introduction to Plants
The study of plants.
What is Botany?
A system of tube-shaped cells branching throughout a plant that transports materials between roots and shoots.
What is vascular tissue?
These contain the female reproductive tissue on a coniferous plant.
What are seed cones?
A "seed leaf" that develops as part of a seed and provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant.
What is a cotyledon?
This is the stem that holds the flower.
What is the pedicel?
A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular form.
What is Alternation of Generations?
These are the classification of nonvascular plants.
These contain the male reproductive tissue on a coniferous plant.
What are pollen cones?
These, such as corn, have a single cotyledon.
What are monocots?
These are the green leaflike structures above the pedicel.
What are sepals?
It is the haploid generation and produces gametes.
What is a gametophyte?
These are seedless vascular plants.
What are pteridophytes?
A fine dust that contains the sperm of seed-producing plants.
What is pollen?
These, such as beans, have two cotyledons.
What are dicots?
This is the male reproductive organs in a flower.
What is the stamen?
It is referred to as the diploid generation, and it produces spores.
What is a sporophyte?
These are seed plants and produce seeds that are "naked", or are not enclosed in protective tissue.
What are gymnosperms?
A plant's embryo packaged with a food supply all inside a hard, protective coat.
What is a seed?
These plants grow year after year.
What are perennials?
This is the female portion of the flower.
What is the carpel?
People who study plants.
What are botanists?
These are the largest groups of plants on earth, and produce seeds enclosed in protective tissue, called fruit, and are often referred to as flowering plants.
What are angiosperms?
The most unique of the gymnosperms, they have fan-shaped leaves and don't produce cones.
What are ginkgoes? (or Ginko trees)
These plants live for only one year.
What are annuals?
This is where the seed develops in the plant.
What is the ovary?