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BruzzanoPlants2
Flowering Plants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All flowering plants have 3 vegetative organs that have nothing to do with reproduction: ____________, _____________, _______________ | root, stem, leaf |
| ____________ anchor a plant and absorb water and minerals from the soil. | roots |
| __________ supports the leaves so that they are exposed to sunlight. | stem |
| ________ carry on photosynthesis. | leaves |
| Plants continue to grow in size their entire life due to ________ tissue which is composed of cells that continuously divide. | meristematic |
| In leaves, ground tissue is called ____________. | mesophyll |
| Vascular tissue in a leaf is the ___________ of the leaf. | veins |
| What are the 2 types of vascular tissue called? | xylem and phloem |
| ________ contains hollow dead cells that transport water. | xylem |
| Xylem stains what color? | red |
| ____________ contains thin-walled, smaller living cells that transport sugars in the plant. | phloem |
| Monocots have xylem and phloem in its leaves arranged in what pattern? | parallel |
| In what zone of a eudicot root will tracheas and vessel elements be found? | Zone of maturation |
| What type of tissue gives rises to root hairs? | dermal |
| How is xylem typically arranged in a eudicot root cross section? | star like |
| What term refers to stems that are non-woody? | herbaceous |
| What kind of plant, monocot or eudicot, has stem vascular bundles that occur in a ring? | eudicot |
| What kind of growth produces an increase in the diameter of a woody stem? | secondary |
| Where does the new primary growth occur on a winter twig? | terminal bud |
| What type of vascular tissue forms the annual rings in a woody stem? | xylem |
| What is the outermost layer of a leaf that protects and prevents water loss? | cuticle |
| What cells are on either side of a stoma to regulate whether it is open or closed? | guard cells |
| If a leaf vein forms a net pattern and there is one blade attached to a petiole, is the leaf simple or compound, and is it from a monocot or eudicot? | simple, eudicot |
| What are the 2 generations of a plant life cycle called and indicate if it is haploid or diploid. | sporophyte - diploid, gamephyte - haploid |
| Why is the sporphyte generation easily recognizable? | It is the part you can see - the actual plant. |
| Within an ovule, a megaspore mother cell undergoes __________ to produce 4 megaspores 3 of which die. | meiosis |
| Which pollinators can smell? | Bees and moths |
| Which pollinator is nocturnal? | moths |
| Which pollinators do not need landing platforms? | Moths and hummingbirds. |
| Which pollinators have long tongue to reach nectar at the bottom of the floral tube? | Moths and hummingbirds |
| Moth pollinated flowers are typically what color? | white |
| Bees can't see what color, but can see what color? | red, yellow |
| Hummingbirds prefer what color? | red |
| In what flower structures are pollen grains produced? | pollen sac in the anthers |
| What do the stigma, style, and ovary of a flower collectively form? | carpel |
| What do a flower's ovule and ovary become? | megaspores and then embryo sacs |
| What group of angiosperms will have floral structures in groups of 3s? | monocot |
| What is the haploid generation of the alternation of generations called? | gametophyte |
| What process occurs to form gametes in plants? | mitosis |
| What is the name of the female gametophyte of flowering plants? | embryo sac |
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