Across
- 2. The part of the plant responsible for supporting the leaves and reproductive structures
- 3. A modified leaf of a flowering plant that encloses and protects the flower bud before it opens
- 4. system All of a plant's stems, leaves, and reproductive structures are part of this
- 5. Part of the vascular system containing vessel elements that transports materials from the roots to the rest of the plant
- 6. This provides nourishment to the developing embryo in a fertilized seed
- 8. tissue A system formed by xylem and phloem throughout the plant; serves as a transport system
- 11. The outermost layer of the plant, covering leaves, young stems, and young roots
- 14. Pores in the epidermis of a leaf that allow gases to enter/leave the leaf
- 15. bud Embryonic tissue at the tip of a shoot made of developing leaves
- 16. A type of flowering plant whose embryos have a single seed leaf, and which has parallel veins, fibrous roots, and flower parts in groups of 3
- 17. A sac in which pollen grains develop at the tip of a flower's stamen
- 18. An integrated group of cells with a common function, structure, or both
- 20. The base of a carpel in which the egg-containing ovules develop
Down
- 1. A modified leaf. Often the colorful part of a flower that advertises pollen to pollinators
- 3. A pollen-producing male reproductive part of a plant
- 7. The delivery, by wind or animals, of pollen from the male parts of a plant to the stigma of a carpel on the female.
- 9. A plant that completes its life cycle in two years
- 10. A waxy coating on the surface of stems and leaves that helps retain water
- 12. sac The female gametophyte contained in the ovule of a flowering plant
- 13. The portion of the vascular system that conveys sap throughout a plant, made of sieve-tube members
- 19. The sticky tip of a flower's carpel, which traps pollen grains