Plants Flashcards
What is the term for the pollen producing part of a plant?
Anther
What is the term for the opening in leaves that allows gas to flow in and out?
Stomata
What is the term for the part of a root that allows it to absorb more water and nutrients?
Root hair
What is the term for the root like structures found in mosses and other non vascular plants?
Rhizoids
What is the term for the part that is found at the end of roots to protect the apical meristem?
Root cap
What is the term for the leaf-like structures that protect a bud before the flower blooms?
Sepals
What is the term for the female part of the plant?
Carpel
What is the term for the male part of the flower?
Stamen
What is the perm for the seed-containing ripened ovary of a plant?
Fruit
What is the term for the waxy coating around parts of a plant that will keep in water?
Cuticle
What meristem allows plants to grow up from the stem and down from the roots?
Apical Meristem
What is a fancy term for NAKED SEED?
Gymnosperm
What is the food source for a plant’s embryo - before it starts to photosynthesize?
The cotyledon
What is the term that refers to plants with an ENCLOSED SEED?
Angiosperm
What type of tissue allows nutrients and water to move quickly throughout the plant?
Vascular Tissue
What is the term for a plant that produces seeds that contain two cotyledons?
dicot
What meristam allows the plant to grow outward, like the rings in the trunk of a tree?
Lateral Meristem
What is the type of tissue that does miscellaneous jobs in the plant like Photosynthesis?
Ground Tissue
What type of stem can photosynthesize?
Herbaceous
What type of stem does NOT Photosynthesize?
Woody Stem
What are the four major traits of Plants?
Multi cellular Eukaryotas
Immotile
Cellulose in cell walls
Photosynthetic autotrophs
How do plants spread their pollen?
Wind
Insects
flowers - bright colors
smell
Insects
How do plants with attract pollinators?
Color
Scent
Why are non-vascular plants small?
They move nutrients and water through osmosis and diffusion
Why is it important for seeds to be dispersed?
To spread out and they can avoid competition
What organisms did plants evolve from?
Protists - algae
What do adaptations for land plants help the from doing?
Drying out
What direction does Xylem send nutrients and water?
Up from the roots
What directions does phloem send nutrients and water?
Up and down the Plant
