Plant Classification
The two-part scientific naming system used for plants.
What is binomial nomenclature?
The plant tissue responsible for water transport.
What is xylem?
The flat, photosynthetic part of a leaf.
What is the blade?
The embryonic root of a germinating seed.
What is the radicle?
The male reproductive structure of a flower.
What is the stamen?
The two levels of taxonomy used in a plant’s scientific name.
What are genus and species?
The tissue that transports sugars and other food molecules.
What is phloem?
The stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem.
What is the petiole?
The three major developmental zones of the root tip.
What are cell division, elongation, and maturation?
The female reproductive structure of a flower.
What is the pistil?
This phylum includes mosses and liverworts.
What is Bryophyta?
This meristematic tissue produces secondary growth in woody plants.
What is the vascular cambium?
The pattern of veins typical of monocots.
What is parallel venation?
Aerial roots are most common in these types of environments.
What are moist or humid environments?
The swollen part at the base of the pistil that becomes the fruit.
What is the ovary?
These plants have naked seeds that develop on cones or scales.
What are gymnosperms?
The outer layer that protects leaves from dehydration.
What is the cuticle?
The pattern of veins typical of dicots.
What is netted (pinnate or palmate) venation?
The area of a root where cells begin to specialize into epidermis, cortex, and vascular tissue.
What is the area of maturation?
The part of the flower that receives pollen.
What is the stigma?
The correct way to write liquidambar Styraciflua (sweetgum tree).
What is italicized, Genus capitalized, species lowercase?
The difference between monocot and dicot vascular bundles.
What is scattered in monocots, ringed in dicots?
A modified stem that grows horizontally above ground to produce daughter plants.
What is a stolon or runner?
What happens to a dicot tree when its trunk is girdled.
What is it dies because the phloem and cambium are severed?
A fruit formed from multiple flowers fused together, such as a pineapple.
What is a multiple fruit?