HLT 101 Chapter 2
Across
- 1. Taxon assigned based on whether the seeds are borne in fruit or are naked
- 3. characterized by repeated, long vegetative cycles that go on for many years without flowering, once flowering occurs plant dies
- 4. A type of woody perennial that shed their leaves during one season each year, and and develop new leaves during another
- 6. Credited with developing the current Latin-based system of binomial nomenclature
- 9. Published the controversial Origin of Species
- 11. A plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons
- 12. Seed plant whose seeds are not enclosed with an ovary during development
- 13. The most inclusive group by which an organism can be assigned
- 14. Sometimes included as a third part to an organisms name in the binomial nomenclature system
- 19. A type of woody perennial that maintains green leaves year-round
- 20. Large plant characterized by one main trunk
- 21. Taxon assigned based on whether a plant bears seeds or not
- 23. The first part of an organisms name
- 24. More than 80% of all species in the plant kingdom include these
Down
- 1. A cultivated variety
- 2. Formal system of naming an organism by assigning a name with two parts, genus and species
- 5. These populations contain genetically identical individuals
- 7. Plant lives through only one growing season, completing its life cycle in that period
- 8. Taxon assigned based on whether seed contains one cotyledon or two
- 10. If an organism is a plant, it is assigned to this kingdom
- 15. The science of naming and classifying plants
- 16. Nature is characterized by this
- 17. Persist year-round through a variable number of growing seasons beyond the 2nd year
- 18. The least inclusive group an organism can be assigned to
- 22. Has no main trunk, branches arise from ground level
- 24. A mature ovary