plants
Across
- 1. a monoecious plant, that is, the sexes are partitioned into separate pistillate (ear), the female flower and staminate (tassel), the male flower.
- 3. resembling a net or network
- 4. region of cells capable of division and growth in the root and shoot tips in plants
- 8. a short, rigid process of a plant, developed from from a bud typical of a leafy branch;
- 11. grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.
- 13. a tall growing monocotyledonous crop that is cultivated in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, primarily for its ability to store high concentrations of sucrose, or sugar, in the stem.
- 14. system the opposite of a taproot system.
- 15. A developed system of roots
Down
- 2. the precursor of a branch or lateral shoot
- 5. plant organ specialized to anchor and support vining stems
- 6. A thimble-shaped mass of cells that covers and protects the root tip of plants.
- 7. Roots that are modified to give support to the plant
- 9. plant roots that form from any nonroot tissue
- 10. the points at the ends of branches which represent sequences or hypothetical sequences at various points in evolutionary history.
- 12. The adventitious roots that develop from the base of stem nodes