Biology: God’s Living Creation

Composite family

The flowering plant family that has flower heads consisting of disk and ray flowers.

Pea family

The flowering plant family whose members are called legumes.

Cashew family

The flowering plant family to which poison sumac, poison ivy, and poison oak belong.

Angiosperms

The term used to refer to all flowering seed plants that produce seeds covered by fruit.

Herbs

The term that refers to non-woody plants.

Taproot system

The type of root system that has one main root with smaller roots branching off of it.

Organism

The scientific term for a living thing.

Biennial

The type of plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria

The type of bacteria that convert nitrogen from the atmosphere into nitrates.

Botany

The field of biology that is the study of plants.