Across
- 2. the innermost layer of cortex cells which regulates the movement of water and nutrients between soil and living plant cells
- 6. is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.
- 8. conducts water
- 11. Middle layer, fleshy, edible portion of the fruits
- 13. act as defensive structures
- 14. which supports the anther in the flower
- 15. - protect the leaf from injury and from drying out
- 17. Inner most layer, inner rough portion where the seed is accommodated
- 19. The patterns of arrangement of leaves on the stem /
- 20. grow aerially for some time and then bend downwards to touch the ground.
- 22. support and elevate the leaves and expose them to light
Down
- 1. which ultimately produces mature pollen grains
- 3. Highly modified leaves called that may occur in pairs at the base of petioles in some species are known as
- 4. leaf bases filled with food reserves
- 5. Characteristic of these fruits is that their pericarp rupture after ripening and the seeds are disseminated.
- 7. pericarp of such fruits does not rupture on ripening and the seeds remain inside
- 9. Some dicotyledon plant leaves that do not have a petiole
- 10. is defined as the arrangement of veins and the veinlets in the leaves
- 12. blade is suppressed and the petiole develops into a blade
- 16. a meristematic layer of cells which will form root branches or contribute to secondary thickening.
- 17. Outermost layer, forms the peel.
- 18. leaves get modified into thread-like structures
- 19. composed mainly of parenchyma cells, which store starch
- 21. conducts food from leaves to the other parts