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Parts of a flower
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stigma | The sticky part of the pistil |
| Pistil or carpel | The female reproductive part of the flower |
| sepal | The small , leaflike parts of a flower. |
| anther | The part that makes the pollen |
| filament | It supports the anther |
| petal | the colorful part if the flower |
| ovary | It is a hollow structure that protects the seed as it develops. |
| stamen | The male reproductive parts of the flower. |
| style | A slender tube that connect the stigma to a hollow structure at the base of the flower. |
| tropism | a plant's growth response towards or away from the stimulus |
| hormone | it is a chemical that affects how the plant grows and develops |
| auxin | it speeds up the rate at which a plants cells grow and controls a plant's response to light |
| photoperiodism | it is a plants response to seasonal changes in length of night and day |
| critical night length | it is the number of hrs of darkness that determines whether or not a plant will flower |
| Short - day plants | it is when nights are longer than a critical length |
| Long - day plants | its when nights are shorter than critical length |
| Day- neutral plants | its a flowering cycle that is not sensitive to periods of light and dark |
| dormancy | it is a period when an organism's growth or activity stops |
| thigmotropism | touch |
| phototropism | light |
| gravitropism | gravity |
| positive tropism | |
| negative tropism | when a plant is growing a way from the stimulus |