Intro to Botany
Plant Characteristics
Seeds
Benefits of Plants
Monocot & Dicot
100

What is botany?

The study of plants.

100

______ plants do not have stems, roots, or leaves.

Nonvascular

100

T/F: Inside every seed a tiny dormant (sleeping) living thing.

True

100

What is the one of most important functions of plants to help humans?

Producing oxygen.

100

Monocots have how many cotyledons?

1

200

Scientists who study plants are called _________?

Botanists

200

______ plants have tubes that carry liquid inside the plant.

Vascular

200

What are the biggest part of the seed embryo?

Cotyledons

200

Plants can be used for _____?

Fiber. Fuel. Construction.

200

Dicots have how many cotyledons?

2

300

Botanists study things in the kingdom _____.

Plantae or plants

300

What is the midrib?

The thick vein that carries water from the stem to the smaller veins in the leaf.

300

What is the embryo’s root called?

Radicle

300

How can plants help animals?

They provide food and shelter for them.
300

_____ has leaves with veins that grow upward and has flowers in multiples of 3.

Monocot

400

Who is Gregor Mendel?

Botanist who experiments in breeding garden peas which led to his recognition as founder of the science of genetics. 

400

What carries sugar and other chemicals down the plant?

Phloem

400

What will the stem be called?

Hypocotyl

400

Plants can be used as _____ which resulted in many lives being saved.

Medicine 

400

____ has veins that branch from a thick midrib and flowers with multiples of 4 or 5. 

Dicot

500
The process that plants use to are their own food is called ____.

Photosynthesis 

500

What carries water and chemicals up the plant?

Xylem

500

What do you call the top of the embryo that holds the plumule that will become the first true leaves of the plant?

Epicotyl 

500

Plants use photosynthesis to capture what?

Carbon Dioxide

500

What do you call plants that make seeds?

Angiosperms