Macroscopic Structures

Question 1

Rhizoids

Answer 1

A short, thin filament found in fungi and in certain plants and sponges that anchors the growing (vegetative) body of the organism.

Question 2

Vascular Tissue

Answer 2

A complex conducting tissue, formed of more than one cell type, found in vascular plants.

Question 3

Sporangium

Answer 3

An enclosure in which spores are formed, it can be composed of a single cell or can be multicellular.

Question 4

Calyptra

Answer 4

An enlarged archegonia venter in bryophytes that protects a capsule.

Question 5

Spores

Answer 5

A reproductive cell capable of developing into a new individual without fusion with another reproductive cell.

Question 6

Adventitious Roots

Answer 6

Plant roots that form from any non-root tissue and are produced both during normal development.

Question 7

Tap Roots

Answer 7

The main root of a primary root system, growing vertically downward.

Question 8

Prothallus

Answer 8

The gametophyte stage in the life of a fern or other pteridophyte.

Question 9

Monocotyledonous

Answer 9

Grass and grass-like flowering plants.

Question 10

Dicotyledonous

Answer 10

One of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.