Across
- 2. organisms not closely related independently evolve similar traits as a result of adapting to similar niches
- 4. White oak leaf position on stem
- 5. veins, lobes, and/or leaflets all radiate from a single point
- 8. leaf of a plant consisting of several or many distinct parts (leaflets) joined to a single stem
- 10. point in which all needles arrive
- 13. science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups
- 14. flowering plants whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon
- 15. Oregon grape leaf position on stem
- 16. study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life
- 19. male and female flowers are found on a single individual
- 20. Meadow fox tail leaf position on stem
Down
- 1. an evolutionary process
- 3. male flowers are on one plant and female flowers are on another plant
- 6. veins, lobes, and/or leaflets all attach to a central axis
- 7. one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided
- 9. small specialized habitat within a larger habitat
- 11. leaf whose blade is not divided to the midrib even though lobed
- 12. a branch of biology that deals with relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
- 17. the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms
- 18. two separate species evolve differently from a common ancestor