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Botany
Exploring Creation with Botany
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Botany | the study of plants |
| Biology | the study of living things |
| Biologist | People who study biology |
| Astrobiologist | Astronauts who study living things |
| Phylum | smaller groups of plants inside the kingdom Plantae |
| Classification | Process of placing things into groups |
| Taxonomy | the process of dividing plants up into different groups and naming each group |
| Binomial nomenclature | assigning two names |
| Vascular | plants have tubes that carry liquid inside the plant |
| Xylem | tubes that carry water and chemicals up the plant |
| Phleom | Tubes that carry sugar and other chemicals down through the plant |
| Angiosperms | Plants with seeds that have containers |
| Gymnosperms | Seeds that are not covered |
| Anthophyta | flower-making plants |
| Dormant | to sleep |
| Embryo | growing baby inside the plant |
| Testa | shell or coating of a seed |
| Hilum | "belly button", where the seed is attached to the plant |
| Cotyledons | provides food for the embryo once it opens and the embryo starts growing into a plant |
| Endosperm | food that is absorbed into the cotyledons |
| Radicle | Embryo's root, grows into the plants roots |
| Hypocotyl | Will become the plants stem |
| Epicotyl | top of the embryo, holds the plumule |
| Plumule | first true leaves of the plant |
| Germination | the process of the seed opening and growing into a plant |
| Consumers | Things that consume other parts of God's creation to live |
| Producers | things that produce their own food |