Matching for Bio
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Created by:
fmb94 on March 25, 2009
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Classes:
Randolph School: Class of 2012, Randolph freshmen, Randolph School 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accessory | strawberry (made mostly from the receptacle) |
| aggregate | blackberry (made tiny drupes on a single receptacle) |
| berry | grape,tomato (ovary juicy with numerous seeds) |
| drupe | cherry,peach (fleshy w/ a pit) |
| pod | beans,peas (thin-walled ovary that splits along one side) |
| pome | apple,pears (fruit made mostly from receptacle) |
| chemicals | chemotroism |
| graviy | geotropism |
| touch | thigmotropism |
| water | hydrotropism |
| light | phototropism |
| maple | wind/helicopter |
| dandelion | wind/parachute |
| round fruit | gravity/hillsides |
| pecans | hidden by squirrels |
| cockleburr | carried by animals fur |
| witch hazel | a shot from a plant/pressure |
| tumbleweed | wind/entire plant breaks off |
| aquatic plants | carried in mud on a bird's feet |
| coconut | floats in water from island to island |
| berries | eaten by birds/not digested/mistletoe |
| touch-me-not | touching the seed pod causes it to explode |
| angiosperm | enclosed seeds/also known as flowering plants |
| calyx | made by combining all sepals |
| corolla | made by combing all petals |
| complete | flower w/pistils and stamens |
| conifers | plants produce seeds in cones |
| cotyledon | seed leaf/contains stored food |
| fruit | ripen ovary with seeds |
| gymnosperm | naked seeds |
| imperfect | flower missing the pistil |
| incomplete | flower missing sepals |
| perfect | flower with sepals,petals,pistil and stamen |
| conifers | produce seeds in cones;includes pines,cedars,spruce and fir |
| cycads | tropical plants w/ separate male and female parts |
| gnetophytes | grow in desert areas; former source of a drug used to treat asthma |
| welwitschia | grow in desert areas, only 2 leaves |
| ginkgo | fleshy seed coats smell; 'living fossil' |
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