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gccs sexual reproduction in plants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Capillary action | movement of water upward through narrow spaces in the soil |
| Come true to seed | when offspring produced from seed are very similar to the parent plant |
| Complete Flower | flower with both male and female parts; sexually complete |
| Cross-pollination | a process in which pollen (male sex cell) of one plant unites with the egg (female sex cell) of a different plant |
| Dibble | A pointed hand tool for making holes in the ground for seeds or young plants. |
| Direct seeding | The process of planting the seed straight into the ground as opposed to planting tube stock. |
| Dormant | Alive but not actively growing. |
| Endosperm | The part of a seed that acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo, usually containing starch with protein and other nutrients. |
| Enhanced seed | Seed that have been treated before planted in such a way that they should germinate and start growing better. |
| Flat | A wooden or plastic box with slotted bottom to start seedlings |
| Hardening off | Gradually subjecting plants to more difficult growing conditions by withholding water and decreasing temperature; prepares plants for transplanting |
| Hybrids | An offspring of two different varieties of one plant which possesses certain characteristics of each parent |
| Incomplete flower | A flower lacking sepals, petals, stamens, or pistils. |
| Indirect seeding | Started seed in containers to get them started well before they are planted outside. |
| Micro propagation | A tissue culture technique for plant propagation in which offspring are cloned from tissue taken from a single plant. |
| Named varieties | An organism, especially a plant, belonging to such a subdivision. |
| Primed seed | same as enhanced seed |
| Seed coat | the outer covering of the seed |
| Seedlings | young plants which have been germinated several days |
| Self Pollination | fertilization of a plant by its own pollen |
| Tissue culture | new method for rapidly reproducing plants using terminal bud tissue |