Hormones
What plant hormone helps fruit ripen?
Ethylene
Give an example of positive gravitropism?
Roots
Where do gymnosperms produce seeds?
Cones
What is the leafy part near the petals of a flower that helps protect the blossom?
Sepal
True or False: A day neutral plant is dependent on the length of the day.
False
What hormone allows cells to grow larger?
Auxins
What tropism is demonstrated when a vine wraps around a wooden structure?
Thigmotropism
In a moss plant where are spores produced?
The capsule
What allows gametes to flow through the style to the ovary?
Pollen Tube
What is the alternation of generations?
The continual back and forth between gametophyte and sporophyte structures.
What hormone helps plant cells divide?
Cytokinins
What do day neutral plants depend on in order to bloom?
Outside conditions (Temperature, amount of precipitation, etc)
What does an ovary in an angiosperm become?
Fruit
What is the sticky part of the carpel that catches pollen?
Stigma
If a plant needs 13 hours of darkness would it be considered a short day plant or a long day plant?
Short-day Plant
What hormone inhibits (prevents) other hormones?
Abscisic Acids
When a plant grows in the direction of the light what tropism is it exhibiting?
Positive Phototropism
Why would a seedless plant need water for fertilization?
So that the sperm can swim to the egg.
What is the male part of the plant called and what is the female part of the plant called?
Male: Stamen
Female: Carpel
What does the carpel part of the plant consist of?
Stigma, Style, Ovary
What hormones would affect plant shape?
Auxins and Cytokinins
What do short day plants and long day plants depend on?
The amount of darkness they receive.
What is the dominant phase in a fern?
Sporophyte
What structural portion of the flower produces pollen?
Anther
Give 2 reasons, backed by biblical evidence, why God created plants.
Decorative purposes.
To meet physical needs.