plants Flashcards
A plant that completes its life cycle within a year’s time
annual
A seed leaf
cotyledon
A flowering plant with seeds having two seed leaves
dicotyledon
A food storage tissue
endosperm
A running down
entropy
The beginning of the development of a plant from a seed is called
germination
A flowering plant with seeds having one seed leaf
monocotyledon
The study of growth characteristics of a plant is called
developmental morphology
Which of the following does the plant need in order for it to germinate and develop?
matter
genetic information
energy
What is based on the supposition that energy plus matter plus natural chemical combinations are sufficient to ultimately produce functioning interrelated complex systems.
Evolution theory
Flowering plants are classified as:
angiosperms
A plant that germinates, grows, produces flowers and seeds, and dies in a year is termed a(n)
annual
A plant that continues to live for many years is termed a(n) .
perennial
Two ancient ___________ plants cited in the text are the bristlecone pine and the giant sequoias.
perennial
The food for the embryo plant comes from the cotyledon or
the endosperm
A plant that completes its life cycle from seed germination through fruit and seed production within a year’s time.
annual
That part of a woody stem, or tree, that is outside the vascular cambium
bark
The maturation of a cell produced by a plant meristem
differentiation
The first step after production by a meristem
elongation
The youthful, undifferentiated cells of root and shoot tips
meristem
A plant that continues to grow year after year from the same plant body
perennial
The meristematic cells which produce new cells increasing plant body girth
meristem
That part of a tree that is interior to the vascular cambium
wood
Cells that multiply and produce growth at various parts of a plant are:
meristematic
