Plants Flashcards
This tissue conducts water and nutrients through the plant
Vascular tissue
Makes up the cell walls of plant cells
Cellulose
Structures found below ground which conduct water and nutrients from the ground up into the plant
Roots
The scarcity of this resource is the number one factor in limiting the growth of plants on land
Water
Pollen is spread by this
Wind and insects
This allows land plants to grow tall
Vascular tissue - “piping system”
Cell organelle for conducting photosynthesis
Chloroplast
Male gamete which eliminated the need for swimming sperm
Pollen or angiosperm or gymnosperm
A plant which does not have a “piping” system
Non-vascular ; moss ; bryophyte
Plants which have a transport system to carry water and nutrients
Vascular; T
The phylum to which the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts belong
Bryophyte
The male structure in a moss, and it’s gamete
Antheridia; sperm
The female structure in a moss, and it’s Gametes
Archegonia; egg
Multicellular thread that grows when a moss spore germinates
Protenema
As opposed to roots, moss have these structures when anchor them in the ground
Rhizoids
These reproductive structures are produced asexually by moss and ferns
Spores
Mosses and ferns are confined to wet or seasonally wet environments because this structure must swim to fertilize an egg
Sperm (must swim to egg)
The phylum to which all vascular ants belong
Tracheophyta
The male structure Ina fern, and it’s gamete
Antheridia - sperm
The female structure In a fern and it’s gamete
Archegonia - egg
“Dots” on the underside of a mature fern sporophyte
Spores (asexual)
The heart-shaped structure that is the gametophyte of a fern
Prothallus (gametophyte)
The underground stem of a fern
Rhizoids
name for the large, leafy “branch” of a fern
Frond or sporophyte
Means “naked-seeds”
Gymnosperm
A general term referring to a tree with needles/scales instead of leaves
Conifer
The reproductive structure of gymnosperms
Cone
In gymnosperms, the leaves are modified into the shape to prevent water loss
Needles ; (scales)
This group is among the most ancient of the cone bearing plants
Cycads
This group contains gymnosperms with leaves instead of needles
Ginkoes
Means “enclosed-seeds” In a “vessel” or fruit
Angiosperm
Flower parts which attract pollinators
Petals
The tiny plant contained within a seed
Embryo
These organisms are the most common pollinators of flowers
Bees or insects
The structure in a flower which contains the ovules
Ovary
The entire male portion of a flower
Stamen
Structure which supports an anther in a flower
Filament
The long tube which leads to the ovary in flowers
Style
The structure which produces pollen grains in a flower
Anther
The “flowering plants”
Angiosperms
The entire female part of the flower
Pistol
The sticky part of a flower to which pollen grains adhere
Stigma
The reproductive structure on an angiosperm
Flower
The seeds of an angiosperm are enclosed In a structure called a
Fruit
