gccs sexual reproduc Word Scramble

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gccs sexual reproduc

gccs sexual reproduction in plants

Question	Answer
Capillary action	movement of water upward through narrow spaces in the soil
Come true to seed	when offspring produced from seed are very similar to the parent plant
Complete Flower	flower with both male and female parts; sexually complete
Cross-pollination	a process in which pollen (male sex cell) of one plant unites with the egg (female sex cell) of a different plant
Dibble	A pointed hand tool for making holes in the ground for seeds or young plants.
Direct seeding	The process of planting the seed straight into the ground as opposed to planting tube stock.
Dormant	Alive but not actively growing.
Endosperm	The part of a seed that acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo, usually containing starch with protein and other nutrients.
Enhanced seed	Seed that have been treated before planted in such a way that they should germinate and start growing better.
Flat	A wooden or plastic box with slotted bottom to start seedlings
Hardening off	Gradually subjecting plants to more difficult growing conditions by withholding water and decreasing temperature; prepares plants for transplanting
Hybrids	An offspring of two different varieties of one plant which possesses certain characteristics of each parent
Incomplete flower	A flower lacking sepals, petals, stamens, or pistils.
Indirect seeding	Started seed in containers to get them started well before they are planted outside.
Micro propagation	A tissue culture technique for plant propagation in which offspring are cloned from tissue taken from a single plant.
Named varieties	An organism, especially a plant, belonging to such a subdivision.
Primed seed	same as enhanced seed
Seed coat	the outer covering of the seed
Seedlings	young plants which have been germinated several days
Self Pollination	fertilization of a plant by its own pollen
Tissue culture	new method for rapidly reproducing plants using terminal bud tissue

Created by: sbowen on 2012-02-03