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Aplogia Botany
Chapter 3 Vocabulary - Exploring Creation with Botany
Question | Answer |
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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) |