Module #14 Vocabulary

Question 0

Perennial plants

Answer 0

Plants that grow year after year

Question 1

Botany

Answer 1

The study of plants

Question 2

Annual plants

Answer 2

Plants that live for only one year

Question 3

Biennial plants

Answer 3

Plants that live for two years

Question 4

Vegetative organs

Answer 4

Parts of a plant (such as stems, roots, and leaves) that are not involved in reproduction

Question 5

Reproductive plant organs

Answer 5

The parts of a plant (such as flowers, fruits, and seeds) involved in reproduction

Question 6

Undifferentiated cells

Answer 6

Cells that have not specialized in any particular function

Question 7

Xylem

Answer 7

Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves

Question 8

Phloem

Answer 8

Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant

Question 9

Leaf mosaic

Answer 9

The arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant

Question 10

Leaf margin

Answer 10

The characteristics of the leaf edge

Question 11

Deciduous plant

Answer 11

A plant that loses its leaves for winter

Question 12

Girdling

Answer 12

The process of cutting away a ring of inner and outer bark all the way around a tree trunk

Question 13

Alternation of generations

Answer 13

A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form

Question 14

Dominant generation

Answer 14

In alternation of generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of the life cycle

Question 15

Pollen

Answer 15

A fine dust that contains the sperm of seed-producing plants

Question 16

Cotyledon

Answer 16

A “seed leaf” which develops as a part of the seed. It provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant