Module 14 Vocabulary

Question 1

Botany

Answer 1

The study of plants.

Question 2

Perennial Plants

Answer 2

Plants that grow year after year.

Question 3

Annual Plants

Answer 3

Plants that live for only one year.

Question 4

Biennial Plants

Answer 4

Plants that live for two years.

Question 5

Vegetative Organs

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Reproductive Plant Organs

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Undifferentiated Cells

Answer 7

Cells that have not specialized in any particular function.

Question 8

Xylem

Answer 8

Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water an dissolved minerals from the root of the plant to its leaves.

Question 9

Phloem

Answer 9

Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plan.

Question 10

Leaf Mosaic

Answer 10

The arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant.

Question 11

Leaf Margin

Answer 11

The characteristics of the leaf edge.

Question 12

Deciduous Plant

Answer 12

A plant that loses its leaves for winter.

Question 13

Girdling

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Alternation Of Generations

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Dominant Generation

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Pollen

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Cotyledon

Answer 17

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