GYMNOSPERM - A cone- producing plant like a pine tree, ANGIOSPERM - Flowering plant; two types: monocotyledons and dicotyledons, CHLOROPHYLL - A green pigment in the chloroplasts of plant used. Used to capture energy from the sun to make glucose, STARCH - An insoluble form of glucose that is stored in the plant, PALISADE - Large cells where most photosynthesis goes on, named because they look like a row of posts or palisade, LAMINA - Leaf blade, VEINS - Narrow tubes in the leaf used to transport water and nutrients, CHLOROPLAST - An organelle within a plant cell that carries out photosynthesis, GLUCOSE - A simple sugar produced in a plant by photosynthesis, SPONGY MESOPHYLL - Loosely arranged cells in the middle of a leaf, PHLOEM - Cells in the stem of the plant used to carry nutrients, PHOTOSYNTHESIS - The production of food by plants using the energy of the Sun, RESPIRATION - Burning up food in the body using oxygen, OSMOSIS - The movement of water from a high water concentration to a low one through a cell membrane, XYLEM - The cells that water moves through in plants, WILT - When a plant loses more water by evaporation than is absorbed by the soil and the plant droops., TRANSPIRATION - The loss of water from plant leaves, STOMATA - The holes in plant leaves through which they gain oxygen and lose water, CUTICLE - Waxy layer on the outer surface of a plant, EPIDERMIS - The outermost layer of cells covering a plant, CAPILLARY ACTION - Movement of liquid up a very narrow tube., PETIOLE - Leaf stalk – attaches the leaf to the stem,

Botany set 1 Plant structure & function (except reproduction)

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