Test Flashcards
Vascular
Have channels that provide nutrients
Can grow tall
Have strong root system
Usually produce flowers or fruits
*All seed plants are vascular
Example - fern (most popular seedless vascular
Xylem
Vascular plants have these
Carries water and minerals from roots to leaves
Helps support the plant
Phloem
Vascular plants have these
Carries food and nutrients from leaves to other areas for storage
Non-vascular
DO NOT have channels that provide nutrients
DO NOT GROW LARGE!!
Absorb nutrients through air / sun / thin roots
Grow close together for support
Examples - moss and liverworts
Coniferous
Come-bearing plants (seed producing - non-flowering
Needle / scale-like leaves
Stay green all year
Examples - pine, cedar, spruce
Deciduous
Lose their leaves for part of the year
Leaves change colors
Leaves are various shapes
Examples - oak, maple, birch, hickory
Monocot
Leaves are long and narrow with parallel veins
Flower parts in multiples of three
Single leaf at germination
Examples - grasses, palms, lilies, irises, orchids
Dicot
Leaves are short and round with network of veins
Flower parts in multiples of fours or fives
Two seed leaves at germination
Examples - tomatoes, apples, daisies, oak
Nucleus
Largest organelle
Controls cell activity
“The brain”
Cytoplasm
Gel-like fluid substances
Holds the organelles in place
“Area of movement”
Cell membrane
Allows material in and out of the cell
“Gate to the cell”
Cell wall
Surrounds the cell membrane for support
FOUND ONLY IN PLANT CELLS
Helps give the plant it’s shape
“Supporter and protector”
Vacuoles
Balloon-like organelles in the cytoplasm that stores food, water, and other substances
Larger in plant cells than in animal cells
“Storage tanks”
Chloroplast
Green pigment organelles created by photosynthesis
“Food producers”
Use sun’s energy to make food for plants
FOUND ONLY IN PLANT CELLS
