Chapter 7: Plants
Across
- 3. The sepal is a leaf-shaped structure found in flowering plants.
- 4. Any material that organisms are made up of.
- 7. Mass of scales or bracts,usually ovate in shape.
- 11. Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
- 12. Plant structure that develops into a seed when fertilized.
- 14. Any member of a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms.
- 15. Once a year.
- 18. The response or orientation of a plant or certain lower animals to a stimulus that acts with greater intensity from one direction than another.
- 20. A plant that only lasts one year.
Down
- 1. The ovule producing part of a flower.
- 2. A membrane-bound cell organelle.
- 5. A mass of micro-spores in a seed plant appearing usually as a fine dust.
- 6. Fertilized egg cell.
- 8. The male reproductive part of a flower.
- 9. One of two groups that flowering plants can be sorted into.
- 10. Hormones that control growth.
- 11. Fuel from the decomposition of organic matter.
- 13. A fruit is a mature, ripened ovary, along with the contents of the ovary.
- 16. A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food.
- 17. A plant with two growing seasons.
- 19. Enlarged basal portion of the pistil.