Lecture 6: Floral Anatomy

Question 1

What is an inflorescence?

Answer 1

Group of flowers arranged in a certain pattern.

NOT A BOUQUET lol

Question 2

What is a flower?

Answer 2

They are angiosperms and are plant structures that allow sexual reproduction to take place.

Question 3

What are flowers composed of?

Answer 3

Modified leaf parts

Question 4

What happens after pollination and fertilization?

Answer 4

Part of the flower enlarges and becomes the fruit

Question 5

What is the fruit otherwise known as?

Answer 5

The ovary

Question 6

What is inside the ovary?

Answer 6

The ovules aka seeds.

The ovules inside the ovaries become seeds

Question 7

What is a peduncle?

Answer 7

Stem that bears a solitary flower, or an inflorescence (aka the main flowering stem)

Question 8

What is a pedicel?

Answer 8

The stalk that bears a single flower within an inflorescence (attaches flower to peduncle)

Question 9

What is a bract?

Answer 9

Leafy structure that extends underneath a flower that is a modified leaf

Question 10

What is a receptacle?

Answer 10

Enlarged tip of the flowering stalk upon which the floral parts are attached (directly on top of peduncle or pedicel)

Question 11

What is a sepal?

Answer 11

The outermost series of flower parts, surrounding the petals, enclosed and protects the flower bud, leaflike, and usually green

Question 12

What are tepals?

Answer 12

The name given to both sepals and petals when they are attractive and look alike

Question 13

What are some examples of plants with tepals given in class?

Answer 13

Tulips or daylilies

Question 14

What is a calyx?

Answer 14

All the sepals together (aka a collection of sepals)

Question 15

What is a petal?

Answer 15

Set of floral parts inside of the sepals, often brightly coloured

Question 16

What is a corolla?

Answer 16

Greek word for crown; All the petals of a flower

NOT A TOYOTA COROLLA RIP

Question 17

What is a perianth?

Answer 17

Name given to the calyx (all the sepals) and corolla (all the petals) together

Question 18

What is a stamen?

Answer 18

Male reproductive structure made of anther and the filament

Question 19

What does the anther do?

Answer 19

Produces pollen grains

Question 20

What is a filament and what does it do?

Answer 20

Slender stalk that bears the anther at its tip

Question 21

What is an androecium?

Answer 21

Name for all the stamens together in a flower (aka collection of stamen)

Question 22

What is the pistil?

Answer 22

Central female reproductive structure consisting of stigma, style and ovary (there can be more than one pistil in a flower)

Question 23

What is the stigma?

Answer 23

Sticky surface where pollen grains land

Question 24

What is the style?

Answer 24

Tube that connects stigma to the ovary

Question 25

What are undeveloped ovules?

Answer 25

Found inside ovary; after pollination and fertilization, the ovules develop into seeds

Question 26

What is the carpel?

Answer 26

Chamber subdivision of pistil; may contain one carpel or two or more fused carpels

Question 27

What is an example of a fruit with carpels?

Answer 27

Apples, oranges, tomatoes

Question 28

What is a gynoecium?

Answer 28

Name for all the pistils in a flower (there can be more than one pistil in a flower)