Study Guide 04/23/2012

You grow apples by grafting branches to another tree.

The function is to make pollen.

It is a taproot.

The stem is the part of the plant.

Because they do not need the support of a wooden stem.

They are alike because both are kinds of leaves.

Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

All plants have cells.

They are linked because plants turn sunlight into energy for reproduction.

A fern is a plant that grows from spores, not from seeds.

A spore is a single tiny cell.

The fruit separates from the parent plant.

In photosynthesis, plants take carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight energy and turn into sugar.

They are alike, because both are anchor plants and both absorb water and minerals from the soil.

They are different because fibrous roots spread out in many directions, while taproots are large, main roots that grow straight down.

Wind blows the pollen from grass into the pistil of another grass plant.

A pollen tube grows from the pollen into the ovary, where the sperm cell from the pollen and the egg cell in the ovary combine in a process called fertilization.