STEM

Question 1

The area or region where leaves are attach

Answer 1

Nodes

Question 2

The area or region between the nodes

Answer 2

Internodes

Question 3

Occurs in the angle between the petiole and the stem

Answer 3

Bud

Question 4

Bud located in the axil

Answer 4

Axillary bud

Question 5

Open present at the tip of each twig

Answer 5

Terminal bud

Question 6

Beard leaf like appendages at the base of the petiole

Answer 6

Stipules

Question 7

Scar left by a fallen leaf

Answer 7

Leaf scar

Question 8

That mark the location of the water conducting tissues located within the leaves cards

Answer 8

Bundle scars

Question 9

Dark spots or elevations that allow gas exchange in the stem

Answer 9

Lenticels

Question 10

What are the specialized stems

Answer 10

Rhizome
Tubers
Bulbs
Corm

Question 11

Horizontal stem which grows near the surface of the soil

Answer 11

Rhizome

Question 12

Enlarge ends of specialized underground branches

Answer 12

Tubers

Question 13

Large bulbs with a small stem at the lower end surrounded by several flesh leaves

Answer 13

Bulbs

Question 14

An underground stem which is short stout solid and more or less rounded in shape

Answer 14

Corm

Question 15

Sub-aerial stem modification

Answer 15

Runner
Stolon
Offset
Sucker

Question 16

A slender prostate branch with long or short internodes creeping on the ground and rooting at the nodes

Answer 16

Runner

Question 17

Slender later branch originating from an underground stem and growing horizontally outwards

Answer 17

Stolon

Question 18

Like the runners it originates in the axil of a leaf as a short more or less taken the horizontal branch

Answer 18

Offset

Question 19

Like the stolen it is also a lateral branch developing from the underground part of the stem

Answer 19

Sucker

Question 20

Thin leafless spiderly curve branch by which climbers attach themselves to other objects

Answer 20

Tendrils

Question 21

Some stems maybe modified into hard street pointed structures called

Answer 21

Spines and thorns

Question 22

In some plants stem are flattened and leaf like in appearance in the center of each is a node bearing very small scale like leaves with axillary buds

Answer 22

Cladophylls

Question 23

In some plants stems are flattened stout and fleshy and are modified for water and food storage

Answer 23

Phylloclade

Question 24

Enumerate the principal or main function of the stems

Answer 24

Mechanical support for leaves and other plant organs
Conduct water mineral salts and manufactured foods
Produces new living tissues