Structure
of Flowers, Fruits & Seeds
of Flowers, Fruits & Seeds
The part of a flower produces pollen
What is anther?
Fruit consists of a seed enclosed in a hard, relatively thick shell; examples include acorns.
What are nuts?
Step occurs first in the process of germination.
What are seeds swelling with water?
The section of a twig between the nodes.
What is an internode?
BONUS
Who is the best science teacher?
God
The kind of root system that has one main root that penetrates the soil with relatively little branching
What is a taproot?
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Fruit consists of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core.
What are pomes?
Part of a seed's embryo develops into the new plant's root system.
What are radicles?
Another name for wood is _______ tissue.
What is Xylem?
The process of a new plant growing from a root, stem, or leaf of an existing plan.
What is Vegetative reproduction?
The structure that covers and protects the tender root tip.
What is the root cap?
The type of reproduction unites sperm and egg cells.
What is sexual reproduction?
Fruit has an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer.
What are drupes?
The period of inactivity that occurs before germination.
What is the dormant period?
Branching type in which trees that have strong lateral buds which develop into several main branches, usually close to the ground.
What is spreading branching?
A plant's response to environmental stimuli.
What is tropism?
The process in which substances mix through random molecular motion.
What is Diffusion?
The part of a flower covers and protects the rest of the flower during development
What are sepals?
Fruit is entirely fleshy and juicy throughout.
What are berries?
Fruits that scatter their seeds by bursting open
What is mechanical dispersal?
The older, inner wood of a stem that serves only to support the stem.
What is heart wood?
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The tiny, tube-like projections that extend from the epidermal cells of a root to absorb water and minerals .
what are root hairs?
The name of reproductive cells such as sperm and egg cells
What are gametes?
Fruit is produced by plants of the grass family.
What are grains?
Seed dispersal in which an outside factor carries the seeds.
What is agent dispersal?
Branching in which the trees that have a strong terminal bud that grows tall and straight with branches coming from the large central shaft.
What is spire-like branching?
Kind of tropism results in seedlings bending toward light
What is Phototropism?
the place where food stored within the root
What is cortex?
When a plant cannot be pollinated by other plants, it get pollinated through __________.
What is self-pollination?
Fruit consists of a pod enclosing several seeds.
The tissue that surrounds and nourishes a developing plant embryo.
What is the endosperm?
The small openings in a stem's bark that allow air to enter the stem.
What are lenticles?
What kind of special stem is a potato?
What is a Tuber
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Trees are my home, but I never go inside. When I fall off a tree, I am dead. What am I?
The chief factor determining when a plant flowers
What is length of day and night?
Fruits consist of small dry seeds with one or more wing-like structures.
What are samaras?
The food storage of plants.
What is a cotyledon?
Soft, thin-walled center of a young woody stem that stores water.
The special roots that grow from unusual regions of a plant.
What are Adventitious Roots?
The region in the root tip in which cells grow longer
What is the elongation region/zone?
The first step of fertilization after pollination has occurred.
What is the formation of a pollen tube?
Fruits are formed from one flower that has several pistils.
What are aggregate fruits?
BONUS
How many months have 28 days?
ALL OF THEM!
The tough outer covering of a herbaceous monocot stem
What is the rind?
Which of theses are not a plant hormone?
Auxins, Cytokinin, Gibberellins, Chemotropin, Abscisic Acid, Ethylene
What even is Chemotropin?
Type of special stem grows horizontally underground providing food storage for several shoots
What is a rhizome?