Seed Structure
This part of the seed protects the embryo from damage and drying out.
What is the seed coat?
Germination begins when this substance is absorbed by the seed.
What is water?
Plants that have one cotyledon, parallel veins, and flower parts in multiples of three are classified as this.
What are monocots?
This plant hormone is responsible for promoting stem elongation and overall plant growth.
What is gibberellin?
This part of a leaf is responsible for capturing sunlight to carry out photosynthesis.
What is the leaf blade?
The first root that emerges during seed germination is called this.
What is the radicle?
Other than water and Oxygen, what else is a necessary germination environmental factor?
What is Temperature?
Plants that have two cotyledons, net-like veins, and flower parts in multiples of four or five are classified as this.
What are dicots?
This hormone helps plants bend toward light by promoting cell elongation in the shaded part of the plant.
What is auxin?
In plant classification, this division includes flowering plants, which produce seeds enclosed in fruits.
What are angiosperms?
This part of the seed stores food for the developing embryo until the seedling can produce its own energy.
What is the cotyledon?
Along with water, this gas is crucial for seeds to undergo cellular respiration during germination.
What is oxygen?
This term refers to plants that do not produce seeds but reproduce through spores.
What are non-vascular plants?
This hormone is primarily responsible for fruit ripening and is released in the form of a gas.
What is ethylene?
The process by which a plant creates clones of itself without seeds or spores is called this.
What is vegetative propagation?
This small opening in the seed coat allows water to enter, triggering germination.
What is the micropyle?
This part of the seedling pushes above the soil and straightens, allowing the shoot to emerge.
What is the hypocotyl?
Plants that produce seeds but do not produce flowers or fruits are classified as this.
What are gymnosperms?
This plant hormone is responsible for closing stomata during water stress and helps regulate seed dormancy.
What is abscisic acid (ABA)?
This tissue in vascular plants transports water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the plant.
What is xylem?
The scar on the seed that marks where it was attached to the plant ovary is known as this.
What is the hilum?
The structure that develops into the first shoot during germination, eventually forming the stem and leaves, is called this.
What is the plumule?
This classification level is more specific than family and groups plants by closely related species.
What is genus?
This hormone promotes cell division in plant roots and shoots and works in conjunction with auxin to control growth.
What is cytokinin?
This type of asexual reproduction involves growing a new plant from a section of the parent plant, such as a stem, leaf, or root cutting.
What is cutting propagation?