5.1.2 Plant Organ System: Shoot and Root System

Question 1

What does the shoot system consist of?

Answer 1

Stem, leaves, and the reprod parts of the plants (flowers and fruits)

Question 2

Functions of the root

Answer 2

• Anchoring the plant and obsorbing water and minerals (upward).
• Storage of the products for photosynthesis.

Question 3

What are tap root systems?

Answer 3

Has a main root that grows down vertically

Question 4

What are fiborous root systems?

Answer 4

Located closer to the surface and has a denser network of roots

Question 5

What are stems?

Answer 5

Provides support to the plant, holding leaves, flowers, and buds

Question 6

What are leaves?

Answer 6

Site of photosynthesis

Question 7

Different types of stems?

Answer 7

• Branched
• Woody
• Herbaceous
• Unbranched

Question 8

What are nodes?

Answer 8

The stem that is attatched to the leaves

Question 9

What are internodes?

Answer 9

Regions in between 2 succeeding nodes

Question 10

What does the tip of the shoot contain?

Answer 10

The apical meristem within the apical bud

Question 11

Function of Axillary bud?

Answer 11

Gives rise to a branch or flower

Question 12

What is a lamina?

Answer 12

Broad expanded blade

Question 13

Leaves are attatched to what?

Answer 13

Petiole

Question 14

What is a margin?

Answer 14

Edge of the leaf

Question 15

What is a tip?

Answer 15

Tip of the leaf

Question 16

What is a midrib?

Answer 16

Thick large single vein along the center of a leaf

Question 17

What is a vein?

Answer 17

It carries food or water throughout the leaf