Chapter 6: Leaves, Flowers, Fruit

Question 1

Leaf structure (top to bottom)

Answer 1

Upper epidermis, palisade, vascular bundles, sponge mesophyll, intercellular chamber, lower epidermis, stomate and guard cells

Question 2

Transpiration

Answer 2

Regulates leaf temp, draws water into and out of xylem

Question 3

Pinnate

Answer 3

Feather

Question 4

Trifoliate

Answer 4

Bean plant

Question 5

Palmate

Answer 5

Palm of hand

Question 6

Bud at base of petiole

Answer 6

Compound

Question 7

Complete flower

Answer 7

Sepals, petals, stamen, pistil

Question 8

Incomplete

Answer 8

Lack one or more parts

Question 9

Perfect

Answer 9

Stamens and pistils

Question 10

Imperfect

Answer 10

Staminate and pistillate

Question 11

Monoecious

Answer 11

Staminate and pistillate on same plant

Question 12

Dioecious

Answer 12

Staminate and pistillate on separate plants

Question 13

Single stalk flower

Answer 13

Solitary

Question 14

Multiple or cluster flowers

Answer 14

Inflorescences

Question 15

Corymb

Answer 15

Short, flat topped indeterminate flower, cherry

Question 16

Cyme inflorescence

Answer 16

Flower opens first, themselves corymb, Strawberry

Question 17

Raceme

Answer 17

Single, elongated indeterminate, mustard

Question 18

Spike

Answer 18

Elongated simple indeterminate with sessiles, wheat

Question 19

Catkin

Answer 19

Spike with only pistillate or staminate, walnut

Question 20

Panicle

Answer 20

Indeterminate branching raceme in grasses

Question 21

Umbel

Answer 21

Indeterminate flat topped cluster from common point, dill

Question 22

Head

Answer 22

Short dense spike, sunflower

Question 23

Spadix

Answer 23

Complete, dense, surrounded by spathe

Question 24

Pericarp

Answer 24

Ovary wall, orange peel

Question 25

Hesperidium

Answer 25

Several carpels with inner juice sacs, vesicles

Question 26

Fleshy fruit

Answer 26

Pericarp develops into succulent tissue

Question 27

Berry

Answer 27

Pulpy fruit with few to many seeds, banana

Question 28

Dry-fleshy

Answer 28

Parts of pericarp fry but others succulent

Question 29

Drupe

Answer 29

Simple fruit, single carpel

Question 30

Exocarp

Answer 30

Thin skin

Question 31

Mesocarp

Answer 31

Thick and fleshy

Question 32

Endocarp

Answer 32

Hard and stony

Question 33

Pome

Answer 33

Simple, several carpels

Question 34

Dry

Answer 34

Entire pericarp is dry

Question 35

Dehiscent

Answer 35

Split

Question 36

Capsule

Answer 36

2 or more carpels, septum between

Question 37

Caryopsis

Answer 37

Grain

Question 38

Samara

Answer 38

One seeded, elm
Two seeded, maple

Question 39

Schizocarp

Answer 39

2 or more carpels

Question 40

Aggregate fruit

Answer 40

Several ovaries, strawberry, fig, mulberry

Question 41

Micropyle

Answer 41

Small opening near hilum

Question 42

Hilum

Answer 42

Scar after breaking seed from stalk