Roots
The most important root in the whole root system.
What is the primary root?
Tissue that conducts the water and minerals throughout the plant.
What is the xylem?
Give me an example of a plant that has scattered vascular bundles.(monocot/dicot)
What is a monocot?
The bud at the end of the stem.
What is the terminal bud?
Name what a healthy root stem looks/smells like.
White in color
Smells fresh
A system which has no dominant primary root but is made of many primary and secondary roots.
What is a fibrous root system?
What is the phloem?
What is a dicot?
The surface of the root is covered with a skin of cells.
What is the epidermis?
Can a plant drown if watered too much?
Yes
A root system which is composed of one main primary root and many secondary roots branching off of the primary root.
What is a taproot system?
What is cambium?
Give me an example of a tuber.
What is a potato?
The leaf is attached to the stem at what?
Water and minerals enter here through osmosis and diffusion.
What is the epidermis?
Protects the root from damage as it grows through large and sometimes coarse soil particles.
What is the root cap?
A thick underground stem which lies horizontally.
What is a rhizome?
Give me an example of a bulb.
What is an onion/tulip?
At the tip of the root, this is the area where new cells develop.
What is apical meristem?
Name the functions of the roots.
1. Absorb water and minerals.
2. Anchor the plant.
3. Store food
Increase the surface area of the root and allow much more water and minerals to enter the plant.
What are the root hairs?
Is a horizontal stem that which lies above ground.
What is a stolon?
Give me an example of a rhizome and stolon?
rhizome - kochia or weeds
stolon - strawberry or grasses
Small spots on the stem that allow a stem to exchange gases with its environment.
What is a lenticel?
Name the functions of the stem.
1. Support the leaves (plant).
2. Move water and minerals throughout the plant.
3. Help produce food through photosynthesis.
4. Store food.