Question | Answer |
Adventitous Root | Root that begins growth from the stem of a plant or a leaf. |
Angiosperm | Flowering plants that produce seed protected in a fruit or pod,such as apples or beans. |
Annual | Plant that completes its life cycle in one year or growing season. |
Anther | Part of the flower that produces flower. |
Apical Dominance | Condition made by hormons in the apical meristem that prevents lateral buds from developing |
Apical Meristem | The primary growing point in the terminal bud. |
Biennial | Plant that completes ots life cycle in two years or growing season. |
Broadleaf Plant | Plants with wide, flat leafs |
Buds | Plant structure that contains undeveloped leaves, stems and flowers |
Bud Scale | Plant structure that cover and protect undeveloped parts. |
Calyx | All of the sepals of a flower. |
cambium | Layers of cells where cell division and plant growth ocur. |
Complete Flower | A flower with four parts sepals, petals,stamens and pistil |
Compound leaf | leaf composed of petiole and two or more leaf blades called leaflets |
Cuticle | epideermis cells with a waxy coating that prevents excessive water loss |
Deciduous | Woody perennial plant that loses its leaves in the fall. |
Dicot | A class of flowering plants oaks cacti roses and soybeans are examples. |
Dioecious | Plant species with male and female flowers on different plants |
Epidermis | Protective layer of cells on the outside of leaves and other organs. |
Evergreen | Plants that keep their leaves year round |
Fibrous root system | Root system consisting of numerous slender roots. |
Filament | Stalk part of the stamen that holds the anther in a flower. |
Flower | Reproductive organ of a plant |
Guard Cell | pair of cells that regulate the opening and closing of stomata |
Gymnosprem | plants that have seeds not protected by fruit such as pine cones |
Hardy | Plants with tolerance for cold weather |
herbaceous | soft stems of some perennial plants that are killed by frost. |
Imperfect flower | a flower that lacs a stamen or pistil |
Incomplete flower | a flower that lacs any one of the four parts of a complete flower |
Lateral bud | buds located along the sides of stems where the leaves are attached |
leaf blade | large brood part of a leaf |
leaflet | two or more leaf blades |
leaves | plant organs responsible for food production |
life cycle | time requrid for a plant to grow from its begining till it dies |
mesophyll | tissue in the middle layer of a leaf thatconducts photosynthesis |
monecious | plants that have both male and female flowers sepearatley such as corn |
Monocot | class of flowering plant includes lilies grassws corn and palms |
narrowleaf plant | plants with needle or scale shaped leafs |
ovary | part of flower where eggs are produced and seeds devolp ovory becomes a fruit |
palisade layer | layer of cells below upper edermis in a leaf |
perennial | plant with a life cycle of more then two years |
perfect flower | a plant with essential and accessory organs. |
petal | leaf like colorful part of flower |
petiole | leaf stalk connecting structre between leaf blade and flower |
phloem | tissue that transport food from the leafs to the remainder of the plant |
pistil | female part of the flower that contains the sitgma stle and ovary |
pollen | produced by the anther in the flower of a plant contains the male and female parts |
primary root | mayjor root of a plant frist root developed by a seed to anchor the plant and absorb water |
root cap | specialized cell on the tips of roots that protect them as they grow through the soil |
root hair | tiny root structures that incress the area for asborbing water |
secondary root | small branchs fromed on secondary root |
sepal | green leaf like structures that protects a flower |
simple leaf | leaf with a single blade and petel |
spongy layer | loosely arranged layer of cells between the polisade layer and mesophily in a leaf |
stamen | male reproductive parts of a flower made of filaments dwarf and dwolf |
stigma | sticky part of a flower pistil where ploolen is collected |
stamen | opening in the leaf that allow oxygen co2 and water |
style | part of a flower pistal that connects the stigma and ovory |
TAP ROOT SYSTEM | root system with one thick main root that grows striaght down |
terminal bud | large bud at the tip of a twig |
transpiration | movement of water viper through stomata and out of a plant |
vasculor cambium | layer of combium between the xylem and phloem |
woody | perennial plants that are not killed by frost and survive from one year to the next with trees being an example |
xylem | plant tissue that transport water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves |