Plant Basics
What is photosynthesis?
The process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
What are bryophytes?
Mosses belong to this group of nonvascular plants.
What are nonvascular plants?
These plants lack transport tissues.
What are flowers?
These reproductive structures are found in flowering plants.
What are monocots?
These plants have one seed leaf.
What is the chloroplast?
Plants have this organelle that captures sunlight.
What are ferns (pteridophytes)?
These plants reproduce using spores and have vascular tissue but no seeds.
What is xylem?
This tissue carries water upward in plants.
What are spores?
Ferns and mosses reproduce using these instead of seeds.
What are dicots?
These plants have two seed leaves.
What are autotrophs?
Plants are classified as this type of organism because they make their own food.
What are gymnosperms?
This plant group produces seeds but no flowers.
What is phloem?
This tissue transports sugars made in leaves.
What is pollination?
This process transfers pollen from one flower to another.
What is the anther?
This part of the flower produces pollen.
What is the cell wall?
This rigid structure surrounds plant cells and provides support.
What are angiosperms?
Flowering plants belong to this group.
What are vascular plants?
These plants can grow taller because they have vascular tissue.
What is fertilization?
This occurs when sperm cells fuse with egg cells in plants.
What is the ovary?
This part of the plant develops into fruit after fertilization.
What is chlorophyll?
This green pigment absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
What are gymnosperms?
This term describes plants that produce “naked seeds,” like pine trees
What is lack of transport/support tissues?
This is the main reason nonvascular plants stay small and close to the ground.
What is a seed?
This structure protects and nourishes a developing plant embryo.
What are parallel veins (monocots)?
These veins run parallel in one group of flowering plants.