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Aplogia Botany
Chapter 3 Vocabulary - Exploring Creation with Botany
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Herbivores | Animals that eat only plants |
| Carnivores | Animals that eat only meat |
| Dissecting | When you take something apart to study it |
| Anatomy | The study of the different parts of a living thing |
| Stamen | Little stalks or poles that all look the same (male) |
| Filament | The pole of the stamen (male) |
| Anther | The enlarged part at the top of every filament covered with pollen (male) |
| Sepal | Green leaf-like points under the petals |
| Calyx | All of the sepals together |
| Carpel | The female part of the flower |
| Stigma | The sticky head at the top of the carpel. It is designed to catch any pollen that touches it (female) |
| Style | The long tube that holds the stigma (female) |
| Ovary | The very bottom part of the carpel (female) |
| Ovules | Little egg-shaped structures inside the ovary |
| Composite flowers | Hundreds of flowers on one stalk. Each tiny flower in the center has its own tiny stamens and carpet with ovules deep within |
| Ray flowers | Composite flowers like Daisies, Asters, Sunflowers and Dandelions |
| Venus Flytrap | Most famous of all the carnivorous plants |
| Bladderwort | Carnivorous plant that looks perfectly normal from above, but has traps that hang below the water (carnivorous) |
| Pitcher Plant | Has vase-like tubes that grow straight up from its grass-like stems (carnivorous) |
| Sundews | Has sticky goo on the ends of the flower stalks (carnivorous) |
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