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Apologia Botany
Apologia Botany Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Seed | A baby plant in a protective coating with food |
Dormant | Asleep |
Seed requires __________,__________,___________ to grow | Warmth, water, and air |
Embryo | Baby plant in a seed |
Testa | Seed's coat |
Seedling | little plant |
Hilum | the scar on a seed marking where the seed was attached to the parent plant. It is like a belly button |
Cotyledons | The part of the seed that uses to nourish the embryo as it develops into a seedling |
Epicotyl | The top part of the embryo |
Plumules | the feather-like leaves on the embryo |
Radicle | Embryo's root |
Endospern | the nutrition within the seed before it gets absorbed by the cotyledons |
Plants are | producers |
People are | Comsumers |
Germination | Water get inside the seed, and the embryo wake up |
Plumule means in Latin | feather |
Monocot | 6 petals flower |
Dicot | five petals flower |