Botany 101

Question 1

What is the very tip of a leaf?

Answer 1

Apex

Question 2

What is the main leaf vein?

Answer 2

Midrib

Question 3

What is a leaf’s edge?

Answer 3

Margin

Question 4

What is the whole leaf?

Answer 4

Lamina

Question 5

What attaches the leaf to stem?

Answer 5

Petiole

Question 6

What are the two main categories of leaves?

Answer 6

Simple and Compound

Question 7

What is a simple leaf?

Answer 7

1 whole leaf attached to plant stem.

Question 8

What is a compound leaf?

Answer 8

Several leaflets attached to simple petiole.

Question 9

What are the 3 basic leave arrangements?

Answer 9

Opposite, Alternate, and Whorled

Question 10

What are the 3 types of leaf patterns?

Answer 10

Parallel, Pinnate, Palmate.

Question 11

What leaves have parallel veins?

Answer 11

Parallel

Question 12

What leaves have veins branching out from midrib in one leaf?

Answer 12

Pinnate

Question 13

What leaf has veins branching from the midrib and the branched veins?

Answer 13

Palmate

Question 14

What are 6 Examples of leaf shapes?

Answer 14

Linear, Lancelate, Elliptical, Delfoid, Lobed, Needle.

Question 15

What is a leaf’s margin with small sharp teeth?

Answer 15

Serrate margin

Question 16

Denatate

Answer 16

Pronounced teeth that point outward

Question 17

Crenate

Answer 17

If teeth are rounded

Question 18

Undulate

Answer 18

Wavy, but no teeth