Nutritional Modes
A plant that gets it's nutrients from dead organic matter.
What is a saprophyte?
This is the structure on a perfect flower that contains the immature male gametophytes.
What is the anther?
The type of ovary in which all flower parts are attached below the ovary.
What is a superior ovary?
In a monocot seed, this structure is responsible for absorbing nutrients from the endosperm during germination and bringing them to the developin embryo.
What is the scutelum?
This type of fruit has more than one carpel, many seeds on the inside and the carpel is soft and fleshy.
What is a berry?
A plant that takes it's nutrients from another plant.
What is a parasitic plant?
This is the structure where immature male gametophytes land and begin germinating.
What is the stigma?
This is when parts of one whorl are united with parts of another whorl.
What is adnation?
This structure protects the shoot as a monocot seed germinates.
What is the coleoptile?
This type of fruit is a berry, but has a harder outer layer and contains oils.
What is a hesperidium berry?
The kinds of roots that penetrate host tissue in parasitic plants to gain access to host plant nutrients.
What is haustoria?
This is a flower that has both male and female components.
This kind of flower has at least 1 part of a whorl that is different from the others.
What is a bilaterally symmetrical flower?
A ripened ovary.
What is a fruit?
This type of fruit comes from one flower with many carpels.
What is an aggregate fruit?
A plant that gets its nutrients from the soil, water, and the sun.
What is a photoautotroph?
This is a 8n structure that contains an egg, 2 synergids, 2 polar nucleii, and 3 antipodal cells.
What is the female gametophyte?
The components of this structure include a pollen grain, 2 sperm, a tube nucleus, and a pollen tube.
What is a mature male gametophyte?
This type of fruit is dry and splits open when mature.
What is a dehiscent fruit?
This type of fruit comes from multiple flowers congregating together into what appears to be a single fruit.
What is a multiple fruit?
An organism that gets its energy from chemicals, but it's organic material from other organisms
What is a chemoheterotroph?
This type of ovary placentation is found when ovules are on a central column with divisions.
What is axile?
This occurs when one sperm fertilizes the egg and the other fertilizes the polar nuclei.
What is double fertilization?
This type of fruit has one carpel and one seed inside a fleshy endocarp.
What is a drupe?
Seeds with this protein are dispersed by ants, helping to disperse many plant species in ecosystems.
What is an elaiosome?