Definitions
What is xylem?
Force that brings water up a plant's transport tubes - loss of water from leaves
What is transpiration?
Structure made of thick, fleshy leaves surrounding a short stem.
What is a bulb?
What is the pea family
The food making process of plants
What is photosynthesis?
What is pollen tube?
Plants that produce seeds covered by a flower
What is angiosperm?
What is primary growth?
Monocots that have sepals and inferior ovaries. They grow from bulbs, corms, and rhizomes
What is the amaryllis family?
Tiny one celled reproduction structures found on plants such as ferns.
What are spores?
What are sessile leaves?
The creeping stem that grows along the surface of the ground.
What is a stolon?
Most important group of plants
What are grasses?
This part of the stamen produces pollen grains
What is the anther?
A young plant that can survive without it's cotyledons.
What is a seedling?
Plants without a vascular system
What is a bryophyte?
This part of the plant embryo develops into the shoot of the plant
What is a plumule?
Leaf shape resembles a bird foot. Also called the crowfoot family.
What is the buttercup family?
This part of the plant develops into the root system.
What is a radicle?
Needs two growing cycles to complete it's life cycle
What is a biennial?
What is osmosis?
A fruit develops from this part of the flower.
What is the ovary?
What is the rose family?
Dispersal through birds and other animals that helps disperse the seed.
What is agent dispersal?