Types of Simple Fruits
What type of fruit has a pod enclosing several seeds?
Legumes
Which part of the flower attracts the insects?
Petals
What is the unification of 2 cells?
Gamete
In a woody stem, the older, inner wood that provides support is known as _____________.
heartwood
Roots that have no main section but instead spread out with very tiny roots are ________.
Fibrous roots
Peaches, cherries, and mangos are a type of which kind of fruit?
Drupes
Which part of the flower produces pollen?
Stamen
Spreading seeds from an outside agent such as wind is known as __________.
agent dispersal
What factor drives the sap stream?
Transpiration pull
In some cases, plant seedlings grow roots that follow the direction of water. This demonstrates which type of tropism?
Hydrotropism
Which type of fruit is the entire ovary fleshy and juicy?
Berries
Which part of the flower receives the pollen?
Stigma
What part of the seed provides nutrition for the embryo?
Endosperm
What are the small openings in the stem's bark that allows air to enter the stem?
Lenticels
The outer layer of the root that provides protectionis called the ________.
Epidermis
Achenes
Which part of the flower holds the developing seeds?
Receptacle
Grass consists of stamens, pistils, and sepals, but lacks petals. What category of flower does it belong?
Incomplete flower
a. cambium, b. pith, c. rind, d. cortex
c. rind
special roots that frow from unusual regions of a plant are called __________ roots.
adventitious
The grass family produces which type of fruit?
Grains
Which part of the flower holds the anther?
Filament
After pollination, the first step in fertilization is the formation of a ________.
pollen tube
A woody stem stores water in soft, thin-walled cells at its center. What is this storage region called?
Pith
Within a root, food is stored in the ________.
root cortex