Plant Diversity :macroscopic Structures

Question 1

Rhizoids

Answer 1

Anchor the plant firmly in the soil and absorbs water

Question 2

Vascular tissue

Answer 2

Tissues in plants consisting of phloem and xylem by which water and nutrients are conducted through the plant

Question 3

Sporangium

Answer 3

A receptacle in which asexual pores are formed (in ferns and lower plants)

Question 4

Calyptra

Answer 4

A protective structure that sheathes the growing embryo

Question 5

Spores

Answer 5

One called reproductive unit that gives rise to a new individual without sexual fusion (lower plants , fungi and protozoan)

Question 6

Adventitious roots

Answer 6

Roots that develop from a non root tissue part of the plant (stem , branch or leaves) rather than root

Question 7

Tap roots

Answer 7

A typically long thick root that taps deep down into the soil

Question 8

Prothallus

Answer 8

Gametophyte of ferns and other primitive plants

Question 9

Monocotyledonous

Answer 9

Angiosperm plants that have an embryo with a single cotyledon

Question 10

Dicotyledonous

Answer 10

Angiosperms that have an embryo with 2 cotyledons