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ch 25
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| dermal tissue | the outer covering of a plant |
| around tissue | insiole of the non woody |
| epidermis | the outer surface layer of cell a plant or animal |
| cork | the outer layer of bark of any woody plant |
| vessel | gnetophytes and flowering plant also have a second type of xylem cell which make up conducting strands |
| pith | the tissue that is located in the center of the stem of most vascular plant and that is used for storage |
| herbaceous | a plant with stems that are flex and usually |
| cortex | the ground tissue surrounding the vascular tissue |
| heart wood | the non conducting older wood in the center of a tree trunk |
| petial | is often attached to a stem by a stalk |
| mesophyll | in leaves the ground tissue |
| vascular bundles | herbuceous plants contain bundles of xylem and phloem |
| sapwood | the tissues of the secondary xylem that is distibuted around the outside of tree trunk and is active in transporting |
| root hair | an ext4ension of the epidermis of a root"s surface area for absorption |
| root cap | the protective layer efcells that covers the tip of a root |
| sieve tube | in the phoem of a flowering plant a conducting tube that is made up of a series of sieve tube members stacked end to end |
| transpiration | this loss of water vapor froma plant |
| source | a plant that makes sogars and other organic compounds and from which these compounds are transported to other plants organisms |
| sink | any place coneve a plant stores or oses organic nutrients suchas sugar or starcnes |