| A | B |
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| Stem function #1 | Support the Leaves |
| Stem function #2 | Move water, minerals and food through the whole plant |
| Stem function #3 | Produce food through photosynthesis |
| Stem function #4 | Store food that has been manufactured by the plant |
| Contains apical meristem; found at the tip of a stem; it increases the length of the stem | Terminal bud |
| Where the leaf and bud attaches to the stem | Node |
| Distance between two nodes; tells how much the tree grew in one season | Internode |
| Also called the axillary bud; develops into a leaf or flower | Lateral bud |
| Lateral and terminal buds are protected by | bud scales |
| is the remains of the leaf after it has fallen off of the tree | Leaf scar |
| are small spots on the stem that allow a stem to exchange gases with the environment | Lenticals |
| conducts the water and minerals upward throughout the plant | Xylem |
| conducts the food that is produced in the leaf downward to the rest of the plant | Phloem |
| The tissue responsible for the production of new xylem and phloem | Cambium |
| A very short, flattened stem, has several fleshy leaves, tend to found beneath the soil | Bulb |
| A spherical structure similiar to a bulb, most of it is stem | Corm |
| A thick underground stem, lies horizontally | Rhizome |
| A horizontal stem lies above the ground, sometimes called runners | Stolon |
| A rhizome with a tip that is swollen with stored food | Tuber |
