Plant Vocab Flashcards
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What are angiosperms?
Flowering plants.
What are gymnosperms?
Cone bearing plants.
What does fertilize mean?
A process of sexual reproduction, which occurs after pollination and germination.
What does pollinate mean?
Convey pollen to or deposit pollen and allow fertilization.
What is chlorophyll?
The green pigment in plants that captures the light energy used in photosynthesis.
What is photosynthesis?
A chemical process by which green plants make their food using energy from the sun to turn water and carbon dioxide into food, giving off oxygen as a byproduct.
What are stomata?
The nostril of the plant; holes at the edge of the leaf.
What is a cell?
A basic microscopic part of an animal or a plant.
What is the cell nucleus?
The part of a cell that controls all the parts of the cell and stores the chromosomes.
What is a chromosome?
The part of a cell that carries the genes that give living things their special characteristics.
What is adaptation?
A change that a living thing goes through so it fits better with its environment.
What is the environment?
The natural world of land, sea, and air.
What does adapt mean?
A change in response to the environment or situation.
What is an anther?
The part of the stamen where pollen is produced.
What is a filament?
The part of a stamen that supports the anther of a flower.
What is a flower?
The seed-bearing part of a plant, with reproductive organs; the colored part of the plant.
What is a petal?
The parts of a flower that are often conspicuously colored.
What is a pistil?
The ovule producing part of a flower.
What is a sepal?
The outer parts of the flower, often green and leaf-like, enclosing a developing bud.
What is a stamen?
The pollen producing part of a flower, usually with a slender filament supporting the anther.
What is a stigma?
The part of the pistil where pollen germinates.
What is a style?
The female part of a flower connecting the ovary to the stigma.
What is an ovary?
The enlarged basal portion of the pistil where ovules are produced.
What is an ovule?
The structure in seed plants that gives rise to the female reproductive cells.
