FLASHCARD 3: Science: Order & Design (Sections 2.1-2.2)

Front

From which part of a flower does a fruit develop?

Back

ovary

Front

Who recognized that flowers are organs intricately designed for plant reproduction?

Back

Christian Konrad Sprengel

Front

What part of a flower produces pollen?

Back

anther

Front

What is the process called when bees move yellow dust from one part of a flower to the stigma?

Back

pollination

Front

What is the tiny root inside a seed?

Back

radicle

Front

What are the green, leaf-like structures covering a flower bud that protect it until it opens as a fully formed flower?

Back

sepals

Front

The tiny shoot of a seed that will become the plant's stem and leaves is the ___.

Back

plumule

Front

Once a pollen grain reaches the stigma, it produces a ________ through which the sperm cells will travel. What is the name of this structure?

Back

pollen tube

Front

The wind helps in the ___ dispersal of dandelion seeds.

Back

agent

Front

Plants with seeds having two cotyledons are ___.

Back

dicots