A | B |
The broad, flat photosynthetic surface of a leaf | Blade |
The stalk that connects a leaf to a stem | Petiole |
The vascular bundle that transports water and food throughout a leaf | Veins |
In plants, a single large central root with many smaller roots branching out from it | Taproot |
One of numerous extensively branched roots in a root system | Fibrous Root |
The reproductive structure of an angiosperm | Flower |
The transfer of pollen from a male part to a female plant part | Pollination |
A reproductive structure consisting of a plant embryo and its stored food | Seed |
A structure that develops from ovary in a plant; houses and protects seeds | Fruit |
A plant that completes its life cycle in two years | Biennial |
The edible fruit or seed of grasses | Cereals |
Organic compound made of long fibers, or chains, of glucose molecules | Cellulose |
The vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the root to the leaves in a plant | Xylem |
The vascular tissue that transports sugars and nutrients upward and downward in a plant | Phloem |
The condition of an organism that alternates or switches, from diploid spore-producing generations to haploid gamete-producing generations | Alternation of Generations |
A plant, such as a tree, a vine, or grass, that has vascular tissue | Vascular Plant |
A plant lacking the tissues needed for transportation and structural support | Nonvascular Plant |
A nonflowering vascular plant that produces seeds that lack a fruit | Gymnosperm |
A flowering vascular plant that produces seeds in enclosed fruit | Angiosperm |
A plant that lives, reproduces and dies in one year | Annual |