Biology: Plants

Question 1

What are 4 features of a plant?

Answer 1

Embryo Formation, specialized water-conducting tissues, seeds and flowers

Question 2

What are the 5 categories of a plant?

Answer 2

Flowering, Cone-Bearing, Ferns and Relative, Mosses and relatives and Green Algae

Question 3

What are the 2 alternating plant phases?

Answer 3

Diploid phase and a haploid phase (shift between them is called alternation of generations)

Question 4

What is the diploid phase and the haploid phase called? (Multicellular)

Answer 4

Sporophyte and gametophyte

Question 5

What does a vascular plant have?

Answer 5

Tube-like structures that carry water through the plant.

Question 6

What do non vascular plants have?

Answer 6

Water is absorbed through cells (NOT TUBE LIKE STRUCTURES)

Question 7

What are vascular plants also known as?

Answer 7

Tracheophytes (due to water conducting cells, tracheid)

Question 8

What is tracheid?

Answer 8

hollow tube like with thick cell walls

Question 9

Where are tracheids found?

Answer 9

The Xylem

Question 10

What is the Xylem?

Answer 10

A tissue that carries WATER UP from the roots to the rest of the plant

Question 11

What is Phloem?

Answer 11

Transport nutrients and carbs (produced by photosynthesis) which goes UP and DOWN Phloem=Phood!

Question 12

Algae…

Answer 12

Doesn’t make seeds; has no true roots or stems

Question 13

Ferns…

Answer 13

Doesn’t make seeds, has leaves, roots and stems.

Question 14

Mosses…

Answer 14

Don’t make seeds; have SOME roots, leaves and stems.

Question 15

Monocots….

Answer 15

Have one cotyledon, fibrous roots, scattered vascular system, parallel veins on leafs, and flower petals are multiples of 3!

Question 16

Eggs develop in…

Answer 16

The ovary

Question 18

Dicots….

Answer 18

Have two cotyledon, tap roots, ringed vascular system, net like veins on leafs, and 4 to 5 petals on flowers!

Question 18

Surrounding the pistil are the male reproductive arts called…

Answer 18

The stamen.

Question 19

The long tube extending from the ovary is…

Answer 19

The pisitl

Question 20

The stamen produce pollen, the ______ is part of the plant that receives the pollen.

Answer 20

Stigma

Question 21

The very top of the plant (skinny little stick with a tounge)

Answer 21

Stigma

Question 22

Part of the skinny stick; close to the top

Answer 22

Style

Question 23

Also part of the skinny stick; in the center; carries something to the center

Answer 23

Pollen tube

Question 24

AALL the way at the bottom of the skinny stick, there are little eggs that are carried in….

Answer 24

The ovary

Question 25

The actual eggs are called...

Answer 25

Ovules

Question 26

The whole skinny stick structure is called...

Answer 26

The pistil

Question 27

The wittle sticks next to the BIGG stick have a fuzzy little thing on top called the....

Answer 27

Anther

Question 28

The middle of the anther

Answer 28

Filament

Question 29

The bottom part of the flower

Answer 29

Sepal

Question 30

The long stick coming from the bottom of the receptacle

Answer 30

Stem

Question 31

When plants reproduce asexually

Answer 31

Vegetative Reproduction

Question 32

Asexual reproduction

Answer 32

Plants that do not reproduce sexually

Question 33

How do mosses and ferns reproduce?

Answer 33

By scattering spores

Question 34

Dermal tissue

Answer 34

Protective outer covering of the plant

Question 35

Vascular tissue

Answer 35

Interactions between vascular tissues support the plant body and transport water and nutrients through the plant.

Question 36

Ground tissue

Answer 36

Produces and stores sugar and contributes to physical support of the plant

Question 37

Taproot

Answer 37

Root systems where one root grows long and strong.

Question 38

Fibrous roots

Answer 38

Roots system where branched roots grow from the base of the stem

Question 39

Meristems

Answer 39

Regions of unspecialized cells that are capable of cell division.