Plants and Tissue Part 3 Flashcards
1
Q
What are the two major elements from xylem?
A
Tracheids and vessel elements
2
Q
What are tracheids?
A
a long, thick, and walled sclerenchyma cell that have tapering ends
3
Q
What are vessel elements?
A
a sclerenchyma cell that has large top and bottom holes at the walls, or no end walls at all
4
Q
What are seive tube memeber?
A
conducting parenchyma cell in phloem
5
Q
What is companion cell?
A
parenchyma cells that helps in transport, lies next to seive tube member
6
Q
What is ground tissues?
A
they function for metabolism, photosynthesis, storage, and support, consist of parenchyma, sclerenchyma, and collenchyma, cells
7
Q
What are ground tissues surrounded by?
A
dermal tissues
