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Botany
Exploring Creation with Botany
Question | Answer |
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Botany | the study of plants |
Biology | the study of living things |
Biologist | People who study biology |
Astrobiologist | Astronauts who study living things |
Phylum | smaller groups of plants inside the kingdom Plantae |
Classification | Process of placing things into groups |
Taxonomy | the process of dividing plants up into different groups and naming each group |
Binomial nomenclature | assigning two names |
Vascular | plants have tubes that carry liquid inside the plant |
Xylem | tubes that carry water and chemicals up the plant |
Phleom | Tubes that carry sugar and other chemicals down through the plant |
Angiosperms | Plants with seeds that have containers |
Gymnosperms | Seeds that are not covered |
Anthophyta | flower-making plants |
Dormant | to sleep |
Embryo | growing baby inside the plant |
Testa | shell or coating of a seed |
Hilum | "belly button", where the seed is attached to the plant |
Cotyledons | provides food for the embryo once it opens and the embryo starts growing into a plant |
Endosperm | food that is absorbed into the cotyledons |
Radicle | Embryo's root, grows into the plants roots |
Hypocotyl | Will become the plants stem |
Epicotyl | top of the embryo, holds the plumule |
Plumule | first true leaves of the plant |
Germination | the process of the seed opening and growing into a plant |
Consumers | Things that consume other parts of God's creation to live |
Producers | things that produce their own food |