Plant Systems Vocab List #1

Botany

Study of Plants

Taxonomy

Sorting of Living Things

Biology

Study of life

Binomial Nomenclature

Process of giving every living thing 2 names

Vascular

Having tubes that carry fluids

Phloem

Tubes that carry fluids down the plant

Angiosperm

Seed Container

Gymnosperm

Uncovered Seed

Dormant

to be “asleep” but not dead

Testa

The outside of a seed

Hilum

Where a seed was attached to it’s mother plant

Cotyledon

Parts of a seed that hold the food

Radicle

The embryo’s root

Endosperm

The food for the seed from the tissue within the seedIt provides nutrients to the developing embryo until it can photosynthesize.

Hypocotyl

The part of a seed that connects the cotyledons to the radicle, it develops into the stem of the plant.

Epicotyl

The part of a seed that lies above the cotyledons and develops into the leaves and upper stem of the plant. (on top of the embryo)

Plummule

The part of the seed that develops into the leaves of the plant, located above the cotyledons and part of the embryo.

Monocot

A monocot (monocotyledon) is a flowering plant whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

Dicot

A dicot (dicotyledon) is a flowering plant whose seeds typically contain two embryonic leaves