Plant Processes
The process where plants and animals burn glucose molecules to release energy for their cells to use.
Respiration
The layer of cells in a leaf that looks like an old-fashioned log fort.
The palisade layer
The plant kingdom is divided into two types of plants
Vascular and non-vascular
The correct name for the stalk of a leaf.
The petiole
A fern's undergroung stem is called a ____________
rhizoid
A cell divides, making a duplicate of itself.
Mitosis
The dead cells of this make up the heartwood of a tree
xylem
The thallus makes both of these parts.
male and female
The holes in the bottom of a leaf.
The stoma
The Latin word that means "tip"
apex
This molecule captures energy from sunlight.
chlorophyll
These make up the sapwood of a tree and contain the tube that take sugar up and down.
Phloem
Plants that make seeds are divided into these two groups.
angiosperms and gymnosperms
A Sporophyte is a structure that makes _________
spores
Non-Vascular plants rely on ____________ to get water to all their cells.
rain
The organelle that contains DNA
Nucleus
The thin layer of cells that produces both types of vascular cells.
cambium
The texture of a dicot stem can be __________ or ___________________.
woody or herbaceous
The center of a dicot stem is called the ___________
pith
The roots of a monocot are ______________.
fibrous
The formula for photosynthesis.
6CO2 + 12 H2O + light --> 1 glucose + 6 O2 + 6H2O
The cells that make up the bark of a tree.
dead phloem cells
The type of cell that regulates the amount of air and water that come in and out of a leaf.
guard cells
A flowering plant that has vascular bundles scattered randomly through the stem.
A monocot
The study of tree rings as a way to date wooden artifacts.
dendrochronology