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- 3. Sweet-tasting, watery liquid produced by plants.
- 4. What are called most of the plants that bear flowers in clusters?
- 10. The phenomenon that occurs when plants require a definite period of light and darkness before they flower.
- 14. Process in which a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell to form a new organism.
- 15. What are grains that are edible?
- 17. The result of the process of flower and fruit formation.
- 18. What is the most conspicuous (clearly visible) part of the flower?
- 19. What is the swollen base of a pistil?
- 20. What are most fruits considered when they form from one flower that has only one pistil?
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- 1. What are simple fruits in which the entire ovary is fleshy and juicy?
- 2. A tiny shoot that will develop into the stem and leaves of the plant is called?
- 5. Contained stored food that the embryo will use to supply the energy for sprouting
- 6. Any plant on which both staminate and pistillate flowers are produced in the same plant.
- 7. What are simple fruits that consist of a pod enclosing several seeds?
- 8. Sweet, matured ovaries, such as peaches, apples and oranges
- 9. Which is the period of inactivity which helps prevent seeds from sprouting when conditions are unfavorable for growth of young plants.
- 11. Seeds What is the primary function of fruits?
- 12. Transfer of pollen from an anther to the stigma of a pistil.
- 13. Plant's reproductive structure, produced by an anther of the stamen, that contains the sperm cells.
- 16. The sprouting of a seed is called