Design of Flowers
The person who is responsible for recognizing the purpose and design of a flower.
Christian Konrad Sprengel
The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
Pollination
Flowering plants that produce covered seeds.
Angiosperms
Plants that have no petioles but instead attach directly to the stem by a sheath.
Sessile
Nonwoody plants are referred to this.
Herbaceous
What does the anther produce?
Pollen Grains
Occurs when the ripened fruit bursts open and scatters the seeds some distance from the plant.
Agent Dispersal
Seeds that have two cotyledons.
Dicots
Has than one blade joined to a petiole.
Compound leaf
The continual movement of water from a solution of higher water content through a semipermeable membrane into a solution of lower water content.
Osmosis
______________ often attract insects and birds that pollinate the plant.
Petals
The ______________ is the ripened ovary of a flower whether it is edible or not.
Fruit
When the plant no longer depends on the cotyledons, it is a _______________.
Seedling
A _______________ leaf has extensions of itself that can be blunt or end in a sharp point.
Lobed
______________ _____________ is the upward force that results as water enters the roots by osmosis.
Root Pressure
Leaf-like structures that surround the base of the petals are called ______________.
Sepals
The tiny shoot that will become the stem and leaves is called the _______________.
Plumule
Plants that live through two growing seasons to complete their life cycle are known as ____________.
Biennials
Leaves are ____________ when two leaves grow from one node but are across from one another of the stem.
Opposite
The ______________ is the inner portion of the root that consists of storage cells surrounding the root's transport system.
Cortex
Name the three items that make up the pistil.
Stigma, Style, and Ovary
Name the three main parts of a seed>
Embryo, Endosperm, and Seed Coat
What are the three main things for germination of a seed to begin?
Moisture, Favorable Temperatures, and Oxygen
A compound leaf with leaflets attach at intervals along the petiole and resembles feathers.
Pinnately Compound
What are the three items that vegetative reproduction does not involve?
Flowers, Seeds, and Fruit