Life Cycles
These plants complete their entire life cycle in just one season.
What are Annuals?
This is the specific part of the seed that provides food to the embryo.
What is an Endosperm?
A peach is an example of this fruit type, which features a stone or pit.
What is a drupe?
These plants produce "naked" seeds, often found in cones.
What is Gymnosperms?
This gaseous plant hormone is used to trigger ripening.
What is ethylene?
In the 5 main stages of a plant life cycle, this stage follows the Seed/Spore stage.
What is Germination?
The term for the "baby root" or the embryonic root of a seed.
What is a radicle?
This term describes the ovary wall, which includes the exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
What is the pericarp?
Single-celled units that lack a seed coat and stored food.
What is a spore?
The process of joining a Scion to a Rootstock.
What is grafting?
The term for Year 2 of a biennial's life when it grows a tall flower stalk.
What is Bolting?
The name given to the first "true leaf" within the seed.
What is the cotyledon?
This type of fruit, like a raspberry, develops from one flower with many ovaries.
What is an aggregate fruit?
These plants use flowers to attract pollinators and wrap seeds in fruit.
What is an angiosperm?
For a graft to be successful, this specific layer must align perfectly.
What is the Vascular Cambium?
These types of perennials die back to the ground every year.
What is Herbaceous?
This process occurs when a seed absorbs water to burst its coat.
What is imbibition?
An apple is a "Pome" because this part of the fruit is actually the ovary.
What is the core?
Spores require this specific medium for sperm to swim to the egg.
What is water?
To ensure high seed production, annuals are characterized by this type of growth.
What is being fast?
In the 5 main stages, this stage occurs after Vegetative Growth but before Death.
What is the Reproduction stage?
This specific physical action (caused by imbibition) is required to start the cycle.
What is absorbing water?
A pineapple is this fruit type, formed from many flowers fused together.
What is a multiple fruit?
Angiosperms wrap their seeds in this for protection and dispersal.
What is a fruit?
These plants require exactly two years to complete their life cycle.
What is a biennial?