Plants and Fibre

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Across
  1. 2. The male reproductive part of a flower.
  2. 5. A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed.
  3. 8. A method of plant propagation by way of separating new plant individuals that emerge from vegetative parts.
  4. 10. The hollow base of the carpel of a flower, containing one or more ovules.
  5. 11. The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
  6. 13. An animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.
  7. 16. Small openings found in the epidermis of leaves, stems and other plant organs.
  8. 17. The female organs of a flower, comprising the stigma, style, and ovary.
  9. 19. Movement of individual molecules of a substance through a semipermeable barrier from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration.
  10. 20. The relative amount of a given substance contained within a solution or in a particular volume of space.
Down
  1. 1. A fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone.
  2. 2. A liquid in which solutes are dissolved forming a solution.
  3. 3. An outgrowth of the ovary of a seed plant.
  4. 4. A plant that produces seeds, as opposed to one that produces spores.
  5. 6. A narrow, typically elongated extension of the ovary, bearing the stigma.
  6. 7. A slender threadlike object or fiber especially one found in animal or plant structures.
  7. 9. The exhalation of water vapor through the stomata.
  8. 12. A liquid mixture in which the minor component is uniformly distributed within the major component.
  9. 14. A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane.
  10. 15. The process of bringing water up the roots and stems to the rest of the plant. The molecules of the water are attracted to the molecules of the inside of the stem.
  11. 16. The minor component in a solution dissolved in the solvent.
  12. 18. The part of a pistil that receives the pollen during pollination.