Chapter 8 - Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds.pptx Chapter 8 - Flowers,

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Which flower produces an inflorescence that can be over 2 meters tall + has an odor of rotting flesh?

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Corpse Flower

Front

_____ grow on other plants, on wires, in cracks, crevices of rocks, and in fresh and salt water

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Epiphytes

Front

_______ plants = Cycle completed in single season

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Annual

Front

____ = from seed germination to mature plant producing seeds

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Cycle

Front

_____ plants = Cycle completed in two growing seasons

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Biennial

Front

_____ plants = Cycle takes several to many growing seasons or plants produce flowers on new growth, while other plants parts persist indefinitely

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Perennial

Front

Name the two major classes of flowering plants

Back

Magnoliophyta (dicots) and Liliopsida (monocots)

Front

Describe Dicots

• - Cotyledons?

• - Flower Parts?

• - Leaf venation

• - Vascular cambium and cork cambium?

• - Vascular bundle of stem?

• - Pollen grains?

Back

• - 2

• - Multiples of 4 or 5

• - Network of veins

• - Present

• - Bundles are in a ring

• - Grains have 3 apertures

Front

Describe Monocots

• - Cotyledons?

• - Flower Parts?

• - Leaf venation

• - Vascular cambium and cork cambium?

• - Vascular bundle of stem?

• - Pollen grains?

Back

• - 1

• - Multiples of 3

• - Parallel primary veins

• - Absent

• - Bundles are scattered

• - Grains have one aperture

Front

Flowers occur as specialized branches at tips of ______

• - May have branchlets of ____ (stalk of single flower)

Back

Peduncles

• - Pedicels (stalk of single flower)