Seed Plants-Angiosperms

Question 1

What are angiosperms?

Answer 1

Seed plants with reproductive structures called flowers and fruits

Question 2

What are the two main groups?

Answer 2

Monocots (one cotyledon)
Dicot (two cotyledons)

Question 3

Are angiosperms the most diverse and widespread of the plants?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Sepals

Answer 4

Enclose the flower

-Green and leaf-like

Question 5

Petals

Answer 5

Brightly coloured to attract pollinators

Question 6

Stamens
What do they do and what do they consist of?

Answer 6

Produce pollen
Consists of stalk with an anther (where pollen is produced)

Question 7

Carpels
What do they do and what do they consist of?

Answer 7

Produce ovules

Ovary
-where fertilization occurs
Style
-makes stigma accessible to pollinators
Stigma
-pollen is received

Question 8

What makes a flower incomplete vs complete?

Answer 8

Complete:
-has all four organs (sepals, petals, stamens, carpels)
Incomplete:
-lacking one or more organs

Question 9

How is a fruit formed?

Answer 9

When the ovary wall thickens