Plants

Question 1

Roots

Answer 1

Special organ structured to absorb water and minerals from the soil

Question 2

Dehiscence

Answer 2

To burst open, releasing spores

Question 3

Sori

Answer 3

Clusters of sporangia

Question 4

Sporophytes

Answer 4

Spore bearing leaves

Question 5

Megaspore

Answer 5

Forms ovule of seed plants

Question 6

Micro spore

Answer 6

Forms the pollen grains of seed plants

Question 7

Dormant

Answer 7

No metabolic reactions can take place as water is drawn out of it when seed is formed

Question 8

Endemic plant

Answer 8

Only grows in one specific geographic area or habitat type

Question 9

Bio-prospecting

Answer 9

The use of plants to investigate possibilities of developing new medicines

Question 10

Phylogenenics

Answer 10

Branch of learning that tries to show evolutionary relationships among organisms

Question 11

Taxon

Answer 11

Group of related organisms

Question 12

Phylogenic tree/ cladogram

Answer 12

Represents the evolutionary relationships among a set of organisms that arose from a common ancestor

Question 13

Clade

Answer 13

Group in a cladogram which begins with a node (ancestor) and includes everything more distal to the node

Question 14

Distal

Answer 14

Away

Question 15

Rhizoids

Answer 15

Fine outgrowths of the stem