Plant Terminology Quiz

What is the first shoot that grows from a seed of a plant?

• plumule
• hypocotyle

• radicle

What is the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle?

• radicle

• hypocotyl

• plumule

What is the lower part of the axis of a plant embryo or seedling?

What is the first leaf or first pair of leaves produced by the embryo of a seed plant?

What is the nutritive tissue in the seeds of flowering plants?

What is a plant that has two seed leaves or cotyledons?

What is a plant that has a single cotyledon or seed-leaf?

What is a young plant in a seed that is beginning to grow?