Plant Tissues

Question 1

What are the essential uses of plants?

Answer 1

-source of food
-clothing textile
-medicine
-bio-fuels
-Furniture material

Question 2

What are the main roles/functions of plants?

Answer 2

-take up water and minerals (growth and development)
-store food and nutrients
-provide means or reproduction

Question 3

Groups of similar cells with common function

Answer 3

Plant tissues

Question 4

Organs that allow plant to live and grow

Answer 4

Vegetative Organs

Question 5

Anchors the plant to the soil for support

Answer 5

Roots

Question 6

Maintain Axis of Plant together with branches

Answer 6

Stem

Question 7

Two main types of tissues

Answer 7

Meristematic Tissues
Permanent Tissues

Question 8

-A plant can grow because of these
-They are mad up of embryonic tissues called meristematic tissues

Answer 8

Meristems

Question 9

Undergo cell division called ______

Answer 9

MITOSIS

Question 10

found in the tip of the stems or roots

Answer 10

Apical Meristematic

Question 11

“Secondary meristems” or “lateral buds”
Found on nodes of the stems and involved in the formation of branches

Answer 11

Lateral Meristems

Question 12

-Cover and protect the surface of plant organs
-Cells are usually flattened with their top and bottom surfaces parallel

Answer 12

Surface tissues (protect)

Question 13

The epidermis is layered with cuticle

Answer 13

Cutin

Question 14

Another example of surface tissue that covers the outer surface of the bark or woody stems

Answer 14

CORK

Question 15

-from the main bulk of plants
-Production and storage of food and serves as support for the plant.

Answer 15

Fundamental Tissues (fill)

Question 16

large thin-walled and usually have large vacuoles.

Answer 16

Parenchyma Cells

Question 17

-they have thicker cell wall
-they are in the stems as part of vascular bundles just beneath the epidermis

Answer 17

Collenchyma cells

Question 18

They have thick secondary cell wall in addition to the primary cell wall

Answer 18

Sclerenchyma Cells

Question 19

two types of sclerenchyma cells

Answer 19

FIbers and Sclereids

Question 20

Complex conducting tissues that extend from the roots to the leaves of the plants

Answer 20

Vascular Tissues (transport)

Question 21

Transport water and minerals from roots to the leaves via the stem

Answer 21

Xylem

Question 22

Transport organic nutrient in both direction along the length of the plant

Answer 22

Phloem