Across
- 5. Fruits that have a moist, soft, typically edible mesocarp.
- 8. _____________ seed dispersal involves fruits with explosive mechanisms.
- 9. Dry fruits that open on their own to release their seeds when mature.
- 10. ______________ fruits developed from several flowers clustered in an inflorescence.
- 12. A ______________ cell inside each pollen grain divides to produce two sperm cells.
- 13. The family of plants that includes daisies and sunflowers
- 14. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
- 15. Grasses and many edible crops are included in this flowering plant family
Down
- 1. The outermost layer of flower structures.
- 2. The ____________ exchange was the transport of crops, diseases and cattle between the Americas and the old world.
- 3. The layers of the fruit surrounding the seed are collectively known as the ____________.
- 4. Plants with red tubular flowers are most likely pollinated by _____________.
- 6. Triploid ______________ functions as energy storage tissue in most flowering plants
- 7. ______________ fertilization happens in flowering plants but not gymnosperms.
- 11. A name given to designate the current period in which human activity has severely affected the Earth's ecosystems.