Gross (anatomy)
This term refers to non-reproductive structures.
What are vegetative?
What are vegetative organs?
These provide evidence of ancient photosynthesis.
What are stromatolites?
What are cyanobacterial mats?
These types of bonds store energy in hydrocarbons.
What are covalent bonds?
This theory states that all cells come from existing cells.
What is the cell theory?
These are the four tissue systems in plants.
What is dermal, ground, vascular, and meristematic/meristems?
This term describes a growth form with many stems that have secondary growth.
What is a shrub?
This group of plants is thought to have stabilized the Earth after many mass-extinction events.
What are ferns?
These are the four categories of polymers recognized as macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins?
This structure supports weight and is a source of fibers for textiles.
What is the cell wall?
Two of the three processes lead to plant body development over time.
What are growth, morphogenesis, and/or differentiation?
Two leaves per node.
What is opposite leaf arrangement?
These plants were likely the first on land.
What are bryophytes?
What are mosses, liverworts, and/or hornworts?
Signalling molecules are often also known as these.
What are lipids?
What are hormones?
This cell wall component is like a glue.
What is hemicellulose?
What is pectin?
The three cell types found in plant bodies.
What are parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma?
These are the three parts of a typical leaf.
What is the blade, petiole, and stipule?
This value describes the age of the land plant lineage.
What is 500 million years old?
Proteins are a product of this process.
What is translation?
This organelle frequently traverses plasmodesmata.
What is endoplasmic reticulum?
These are the primary meristems.
What are the protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium?
A modified stem for climbers.
What is a tendril?
These are two ways in which ancient land plants might shifted their range in changing climates.
What are spores, seeds, wind dispersal, wind pollination, self pollination, and/or asexual reproduction?
Molecules that are present in some but not all plants.
What are secondary compounds?
What are secondary metabolites?
Cells go through this approximately 1.3 of these every day.
What is the cell cycle? (interphase, mitosis, cytokinesis)
These dead cells are a lot like straws.
What are vessel elements?