Flower
Anatomy
Anatomy
The male part of a plant
What is Stamen?
The leaves are directly across from another on the branches/stems of a plant
What is opposite?
What the female part of a flower needs from the male part
What is pollen?
One flower on the end of a stalk (as opposed to many flowers)
What is a solitary flower?
Intake water and nutrients from the ground
What are roots?
The female part of a plant
What is Pistil?
A singular leaf is classified as
What is simple?
Matures into the seed of the plant
What is an ovule?
An umbrella shaped arrangement of flowers on the end of a stem/pedicel
What is an umbel?
The chemical that leaves utilize to absorb sunlight
What is chlorophyll?
The unsymmetrical flower
What is irregular?
Multiple leaflets forming a leaf
What is compound?
The part of a flower that supports the anther
What is filament?
A cluster of flowers arising from one stem/pedicel (most people upon seeing it will think it is one flower, when in fact it is many)
What is an inflorescence?
The running of water up from the roots, through the plant, and out through the leaves
What is transpiration?
Four main components make me ______ in the absence of one of the four I am ______
What is complete and incomplete?
Leaves growing in a staggered pattern on a plant stem
What is alternate?
The stigma arises from this
What is the style?
The petals and sepals are above the ovary
What is superior?
water + sun + CO2
What is photosynthesis OR assimilation (photosynthesis is a type of assimilation)
The sum of all the petals
What is corolla?
Leaves arranged along a stem in pairs
What is decussate?
These four components make up a regular flower (as opposed to irregular)
sepals, petals, pistil, stamen
The sum of all the petals and sepals
What is perianth?
The intake of O2 and release of CO2
What is respiration?