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Underground Anchor the plant in the soil –Absorb water and nutrients Conduct water and nutrients Food Storage |
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Above ground (usually) –Elevates the plant above the soil –Many functions including: –photosynthesis –reproduction & dispersal –food and water conduction The shoot system includes leaves |
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Primary Growth Have parallel leaves Scattered Vascular Bundles Fiberous Roots Examples: Grass, Palm |
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Net leave venation Ring vascular bundles Taproots Primary and Secondary growth Examples: Rose, Sunflower |
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Thin and flexible cell walls Large central vacuole have the ability to differentiate into other cell types under special conditions carry on metabolic functions Living at Maturity |
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Thick primary cell walls Support in Herbaceous plants Living at Maturity |
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Thick Secondary cell wall Dead at functional maturity |
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Conducts transportation of water and ions in plants |
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| Conducts transportation of sucrose, organic molecules, and ions in plants. |
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–tips of roots and shoots – •growth in this direction is known as primary growth •primary growth found in herbaceous and woody plants •primary growth found in monocots and dicots |
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located near the periphery of the plant, usually in a cylinder –supply cells for the plant to increase in girth •growth in this direction is known as secondary growth •found in all woody and some herbaceous plants •lateral meristems and secondary growth found in dicots |
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| Waxy covering of a leaf that keeps in moisture |
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| A significant partof of the embryo within the seed of a plant. Upon germination, the cotyledon may become the first embryotic leaves of a seedling. |
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| Actual plant that will grow |
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| On a plant and a used to attract pollinators |
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| terminal portion of the gynoecium that has no epidermis and is meant to receive pollen. Where the pollen is recieved. |
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| Terminal part of the stamen in which pollen grains are produced |
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| Pores on the undersides of leaves found in the epidermal tissue |
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| Controls gas exchange and water loss on the undersurface of leaves |
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| A layer of the mesophyll. The palisade layer is made up chloroplasts arranged in columns and located just below the epidermis of plant cells. |
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| A layer of the mesophyll. The spongy layer consists of chloroplasts and parenchyma cells, and relatively large intercellular spaces. It is far less ordered than the palisade layer, and the intercellular spaces are important in gas exchange and transpiration. |
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Zygote actual plant that will grow. Triploid cell forms the endosperm that will provide nutrietns to the growing plant. (coconuts) |
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Diploid sporophyte generation and a haploid gametophyte generation. |
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