Flower crossword
Across
- 1. a small opening on a plant stem that controls air and water leaving the plant.
- 3. a thick, modified underground plant stem with scaly leaves and buds from which new plants grow.
- 6. a part of photosynthesis in which the energy molecules produced by light reactions are converted into sugar molecules for energy storage.
- 8. the very bottom of a plant’s root tip.
- 11. a modified plant stem that grows underground horizontally and sends plant shoots upward.
- 12. openings in the lower epidermis of a leaf that allow or prevent gases and water from leaving the leaf.
- 14. the process of using tissue culture to create new plants. An asexual plant reproduction method in which a single plant cell is placed in a special nutrient growing medium, and grown into an entire plant.
Down
- 2. flower a flower made up of many small flowers in one large structure
- 4. a tissue produced inside a flowering plant around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch.
- 5. a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.
- 7. the outside covering of a plant designed to protect the plants internal parts and retain water.
- 9. a section of a plant stem between nodes. This distance is often essential in determining plant height and shape.
- 10. a layer of cells that make up the xylem and phloem of plants. The thin layer of actively growing tissue in a tree trunk produces the growth rings seen when the tree is cut down.
- 13. a part of a plant whose primary purpose is to collect sunlight for the plant to perform photosynthesis.
- 15. the part of the stamen that contains the pollen