Plants chapter 4

Front

photosynthesis

Back

the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars

Front

xylem

Back

tubes in vascular plants that carry water and other material

Front

phloem

Back

tubes in vascular plants that carry sugar away from the leaves

Front

pollen

Back

a grainy yellow powder made in a tissue at the top of the stamen of a flower

Front

pollination

Back

moving pollen from the stamen to the pistil

Front

embryo

Back

a new plant inside a seed

Front

spore

Back

a tiny plant cell that will develop

into a new plant

Front

tropism

Back

a way that plants change their growth because of something outside of them

Front

growth hormone

Back

a chemical that causes more cells to grow and helps cells to grow larger