Understanding Plant Structures

What is the function of a stem?

• It bears flowers, buds, leaves, and fruits.

• It conducts water and mineral from the roots to the leaves. Similarly, it carries the food manufactured by the leaves to other parts of the plant.

• Green stem has chlorophyll and they can carry out photosynthesis.

• It has nodes from which leaves arise.

State the functions of the root and the leaf in a plant.

Describe the structure of flower with a well labelled diagram.

State the difference between the tap root and the fibrous root.

What is leaf venation?

Differentiate between reticulate and parallel venation.

• The net like design made by the veins on the both side of the midrib.

• The veins runs parallel to each other on the both sides of the midrib.