classification
Plants that have tubelike structures that transports water and nutrients from its roots, stems and leaves
vascular
Seedless plants such as ferns and horsetails have underground stems called?
Rhizomes
How many cotyledons does a dicot have?
2
plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies
Annualplant that completes
A sticky substance that protects pine trees when a branch is broken?
Resin
What type of plant produces flowers and its seeds are protected by fruit?
Angiosperms
The first root that emerges from the seed is called what?
Primary root
A monocot has what type of roots?
Fibrous
plant that takes two years, generally in a temperate climate, to complete its biological life cycle
Biennials
What supports the leaves of the flower and roots
Stems
What classification of plant produces seeds and cones and does not have flowers?
Gymnosperm
Small rootlike structures in nonvasular plants such as mosses and liverworts?
Rhizoids
Flower petals are arranged in groups of 4 or 5
Dicots
What is the plant cycle that lasts three or more years?
Perennials
What part is the top of the plant?
Crown
Nonvascular
What is a fiddlehead?
A tightly coiled, developing fern frond
Which has vascular tissued arranged sporadically?
Monocot
A seed contains what three main parts?
Embryo Shell Cotyledon (food stores)
Tubes that carry sugars and food from the leaves throughout the plant
Phloem
How do nonvasular plants get water and nutrients?
They absorb them through their leaves, which is why they dont get very large
A Seedless vasular plant that has tall, hollow, jointed stems
Horsetails
What leaf pattern does dicots have?
Branching veins
What is the purpose of roots?
Absorb water and minerals for the plants and help to anchor the plant in the soil
Tubes that carry water and minerals from the roots to the top of the plant?
Xylem