Plants Flashcards
What are angiosperms?
Angiosperms: flowering plants that have seeds enclosed in the ovary
What is the sepal?
Sepal: leaves that are directly below the petals of a flower, usually in the calyx of a flower
What is the petal?
Petal: one of the often-colored segments of the corolla of a flower
What is the anther?
Anther: the location of the microspore mother cell located (pollen)
What is the stamen?
Stamen: male structure
What is the pollen grain?
Pollen grain originates in the anther. During pollination, it sticks to stigma on the female nucleus.
What is the pollen tube?
Pollen tube burrows into the style, during pollination, in order to be able to transport the pollen to egg.
What is the ovule?
Ovule is the location where fertilization actually happens, where the sperm joins the egg.
What is the shoot apex?
Shoot Apex is made up of meristem tissue, which is capable of being differentiated into different cells.
What is the meristem?
Meristem: undifferentiated cells capable of growth and specialization
What is the terminal bud?
Terminal bud: this is the tissue that give rise to a new set of leaves located on the shoot apex
What are terminal bud scar?
Terminal bud scar: the previous years’ terminal buds
What reproductive part if the plant is the fruit?
Fruit is a matured ovary
What are stem nodes?
Stem nodes: s tissue that give rise to new leaves
What are lateral buds?
Lateral buds: leaves begin as lateral buds
What is the internode?
Internode: space between nodes
What is the xylem?
Xylem: transports water
What is the phloem?
Phloem is made up of sieve cells, which arespecialized in transporting nutrients. These sievecells react to pressure within the stem to raisewater from lower parts of the plant to higher ones.
What is the cuticle?
Cuticle keeps the leaves moist
What is the palisade layer?
Palisade layer: uppermost epidermis in a leave,where all the chloroplasts are located