Botany, cells and seeds.txt

Flowering plants; largest group in the plant kingdom; 250k species. seeds from these plants are formed inside containers we call fruits.

A member of a class of plants forming seeds in an exposed condition, frequently in cones

The sum of the biochemical processes of a living organism.

Growth to a genetically predetermined size.

A unit of genetic inheritance.

Growth to an indefinite size.

A layer of pectin binding two adjacent cell walls.

The outer covering of a cell.

The membrane enclosing the cytoplasm.

The living protoplasm of a cell, excluding the nucleus.

Fine strands of cytoplasm that pass through cell walls, connecting adjacent cells.

A cellular body in which photosynthesis occurs. (double membraned organelle)

A fluid filled sac within a cell.

A cell structure performing a specific function.

The body within a cell controlling its activities, including inheritance.

Manufacturing proteins of a cell

Garbage can of cell

Highway system of a cell

UPS of cell. How things get transported around cell.

Like apex, top of plant

Breaking seed coat. By acid, hot water, fire, or mechanical.

Cool, moist conditions provided to seed for germination.

Self-sustaining; plant converts sunlight into food.

Seed germination in which the cotyledons are raised above the soil surface.

Seed germination in which the cotyledons remain below the soil surface.

Provides nutrition to embryo.... food storage tissue in seeds.... "within" "seed"

Embryonic root of a monocot

An embryonic shoot

Power plants of cell. Where cell respiration provides energy. (double membraned organelle)

A plant substance forming a part of the structure of cell walls. Starch

When a cell divides to make one exactly like itself.... a cell divisional process in which the chromosomes are duplicated

Seed coat

The process of water absorption by a dry substance or structure, causing it to swell.

The living substance of cells, including cytoplasm and nucleus.

The diffusion of water across permeable cell membranes that select for or against certain substances.

1 cells. 2 metabolism. 3 growth. 4 reproduction. 5 responds to the environment.

"mutual suffering" , release of chemicals by a plant to discourage the growth of other plants near it.

The chemical breakdown of food substances, resulting in the liberation of energy.

A seed leaf; a food storage structure in seeds

An embryonic root [L: radicula, "small root"]

A threadlike structure bearing genes in a cell nucleus

the part of a seedling between the roots and the place of the attachment of the cotyledons

Seeds with two embryos