Basics
The organelle that keeps the plant's leaves and stem firm
What is the vacuole?
The part of the plant that conveys water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibers.
What is the root?
The area in which the root system is located
What is underground?
The parts that make up the shoot system
What are the leaves, stem and flower?
A flower that has both male and female characteristics
What is a perfect flower?
The organelle that gives the plant its green colour and turns light energy into glucose
What is the chloroplast?
This consists of the stem, leaves and anything above ground
What is the shoot system?
This system absorbs these 2 things from the soil
What is water and minerals?
Conduct photosynthesis and sexually reproduce
What are the functions of the shoot system?
The term to classify the anther and filament together
What is stamen?
The three organelles that are only found in plant cells
What are the cell wall, the vacuole and the chloroplast?
The rare term used to classify the stem, leaves, flowers and roots.
What are organs?
This term is commonly used to describe one of the functions of the root system, also used to describe the steady placement of a ship
What is anchoring?
An example of a plant that does not use flowers to reproduce mentioned in the presentation
What is moss?
The 4 female parts of a flower
What are the stigma, style, ovary and ovules?
The material that forms the cell wall
What is cellulose?
The vascular tissue system transports these 3 things throughout the plant
What is the water, minerals and nutrients?
Fine extensions of dermal tissue cells absorb most of the ground’s water and minerals
What is the function of the root hairs?
The type of tissue that is found in the stem to help transport substances throughout the plant
What is vascular tissue?
After pollination, the ovary of the flower becomes this on certain occasions
What is fruit?
The colourless liquid that surrounds the grana in a chloroplast
What is the stroma?
This stores carbohydrates, provides support and storage and manufacture nutrients through photosynthesis
What is the ground tissue system?
The specific term to describe the root system that has one main root growing vertically down with many lateral smaller roots growing off of it
What is the tap root system?
The stacks within a chloroplast that are considered the "solar collectors" of the organelle
What are thykaloids?
The part of the flower that reaches the ovary and fertilizes the egg
What is the pollen tip?