Cellular Division
In meiosis, one mother cell produces this many daughter cells.
What is four?
The four types of tissues found in a plant.
What are ground tissue, meristematic tissue, dermal tissue, and vascular tissue?
The sticky part of the pistil that captures pollen.
What is the stigma?
This waxy layer on the surface of leaves prevents water loss, and was a key development in the movement of plants from water to land.
What is the cuticle?
Plants that have tissues that conduct water and nutrients, including ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
What are vascular plants?
In this stage of mitosis, the chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell.
What is metaphase?
This type of ground tissue is made up of cells which are dead at maturity, and provide rigid structural support and transport water and nutrients.
What is sclerenchyma?
The term used to describe flowers with parts in fives.
What is pentamerous?
A term that refers to the upper surface of a leaf.
What is adaxial?
These small pores are found on leaves and herbaceous stems and facilitate gas exchange.
What are stomata?
This is the longest phase of mitosis.
What is prophase?
This type of ground tissue is made up of cells with unevenly thickened cell walls, and provides flexible support to growing tissues.
What is collenchyma?
The collective term for sepals + petals.
What is the perianth?
A leaf with no clear “top” or “bottom”, often found in monocots.
What is a monofacial or isobifacial leaf?
This type of plant armature is a modified stem.
What are thorns?
These structures attach to chromosomes and pull them apart.
What are spindle fibers?
This modified form of parenchyma is found in aquatic plants, and aids in gas exchange and buoyancy.
What is aerenchyma?
The term for flowers that lack either male or female reproductive parts.
What is an imperfect flower?
This type of leaf is often highly lobed, and has two layers of palisade mesophyll.
What are sun leaves?
The level of plant classification whose names end in '-ales'.
What is an order?
These two stages of a plant's life cycle involve mitosis.
What are vegetative growth and production of gametes?
The xylem of gymnosperms is made up of this type of cell, which has tapered ends and pitted walls.
What are tracheids?
The term for splitting open along a point of weakness, used in the context of anthers and dry fruits.
What is dehiscence?
This plant pigment imparts an orange color, because it reflects orange wavelengths of light.
What are carotenoids?
This type of photosynthesis occurs in high temperatures or low CO2 environments, in order to minimize photorespiration.
What is C4 photosynthesis?