Roots, Flowers, Fruits, Pollination, & Tropism

Question 1

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Underground vascular plants that anchors the plant firmly.
2. Absorbs water and minerals.

Answer 1

Roots

Question 2

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Root extensions that increases the surface area of a root to improve water absorption.

Answer 2

Root Hair

Question 3

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Tiny cap-like structures present at the tip of a growing root.
2. It protects the growing tip in plants.

Answer 3

Root Cap

Question 4

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Root Systems:
1. Have a main central root upon which root hairs are attached.

Answer 4

Taproot System

Question 5

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. The reproductive part of a plant.

Answer 5

Flower

Question 5

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Root Systems:
1. Roots that arise from other than the radicle like stems and leaves.

Answer 5

Adventitious Roots

Question 5

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Root Systems:
1. Bushy roots in which thin, moderately branching roots grow from the stem.

Answer 5

Fibrous Root System

Question 6

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Inner to the sepals that are bright-colored part that attracts insects.
2. The collective unit is called corolla

Answer 6

Petals

Question 7

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Outer to the petals that is green-colored.
2. The collective unit is called calyx

Answer 7

Sepals

Question 8

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. The male reproductive part of flowers.
2. Consists of the anther and filament.

Answer 8

Stamen

Question 9

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Stamen:
1. Sac-like structures, involved in producing and storing the pollens.

Answer 9

Anther

Question 10

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Stamen:
1. Slender, threadlike object that holds and supports the anther.

Answer 10

Filament

Question 11

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Also known as ‘carpel’
2. The female reproductive part.
2. Consists of the stigma, style, ovary, and ovules.

Answer 11

Pistil

Question 12

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Pistil:
1. The topmost part that helps collect pollen

Answer 12

Stigma

Question 13

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Pistil:
1. The long tube-like slender stalk that connects the stigma and the ovary.

Answer 13

Style

Question 14

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Pistil:
1. Found at the base of the pistil that contains the ovules.

Answer 14

Ovary

Question 15

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower - Pistil:
1. Organ that forms the seeds.

Answer 15

Ovules

Question 16

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower Classification:
1. A flower that has both male and female parts.

Answer 16

Perfect Flower

Question 17

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower Classification:
1. A flower that only has male or female parts.

Answer 17

Imperfect Flower

Question 18

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower Classification:
1. Flower that contains sepals, petals, pistils, and stamens.

Answer 18

Complete Flower

Question 19

Botany:
Plant Structure:
Flower Classification:
1. Flower that is missing one of the parts: sepals, petals, pistils, and stamens.

Answer 19

Incomplete Flower

Question 20

Botany:
1. method where pollen grains are picked from an anther and transferred to the stigma.

Answer 20

Pollination

Question 21

Botany:
Types of Pollination

Answer 21

Self-Pollination and Cross-Pollination

Question 22

Botany:
Types of Pollination:
1. Primary type of pollination as it includes a single flower.
2. Occurs when pollen grains fall directly from anther into the stigma of the flower.
3. Simple and fast
4. Leads to a reduction in genetic diversity as the sperm and egg cells of the flower share some genetic information.

Answer 22

Self-Pollination

Question 23

Botany:
Types of Pollination:
1. Complex type of pollination
2. Allows the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of the flower into the stigma of another flower.
3. Leads to an increase in genetic diversity as different flowers will share and combine their genetic information to create unique offspring.

Answer 23

Cross-Pollination

Question 24

Botany:
Types of Cross-Pollination:
1. Pollination that uses wind.

Answer 24

Anemophily

Question 25

Botany:
Types of Cross-Pollination:
1. Pollination that uses animals.

Answer 25

Zoophily

Question 26

Botany:
Types of Cross-Pollination:
1. Artificial pollination done by human beings.

Answer 26

Anthropophily

Question 27

Botany:
1. Ripened ovary of a part containing the seeds.

Answer 27

Fruits

Question 28

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. The wall of the ovary that dveelops as the wall of the fruits.

Answer 28

Pericarp

Question 29

Botany:
Plant Structure:
1. Ripened fertilized ovules in fruits.

Answer 29

Seeds

Question 30

Botany:
1. When a plant exhibits some growth movement in response to a stimulus.

Answer 30

Tropism

Question 31

Botany:
Classification of Tropism

Answer 31

Positive and Negative Tropism

Question 32

Botany:
Classification of Tropism:
1. When the movement of a plant is toward the direction of stimuli.

Answer 32

Positive Tropism

Question 33

Botany:
Classification of Tropism:
1. When the movement of a plant is away from the stimuli.

Answer 33

Negative Tropism

Question 34

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. Plant grow towards or away from the light.

Answer 34

Phototropism

Question 35

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. Also referred tp as ‘geotropism’
2. A type of tropism where plants show some growth in response to gravity.

Answer 35

Gravitropism

Question 36

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. When plants grow in response to certain chemicals.

Answer 36

Chemotropism

Question 37

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. The growing or developing movement made through plants in contact with a solid object.
2. Usually seen in tendrils.

Answer 37

Thigmotropism

Question 38

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. The movement or the growth of a plant in relation to the stimulus of water.

Answer 38

Hydrotropism

Question 39

Botany:
Types of Tropism:
1. The form of tropic movement in which a plant or a part of the plant responds to the changing atmospheric temperature.

Answer 39

Thermotropism