How Do Plants Grow?
What is required in addition to energy and matter to produce plant germination and development?
DNA
A seed consists solely of a protected package of elements, nutrients and plant food requiring only water and solar energy.
False.
An annual plant bears fruit or flowers every year.
False.
Energy plus matter is sufficient for continued development of order, complexity or growth.
False.
Evolution theory is based on the supposition that energy plus matter plus natural chemical combinations are sufficient to ultimately produce functioning interrelated complex systems.
True.
Flowering plants are classified as:
angiosperms
A plant that completes its life cycle within a year's time
annual
A plant that germinates, grows, produces flowers and seeds, and dies in a year is termed a(n) _________.
annual
A seed leaf
cotyledon
A flowering plant with seeds having two seed leaves
dicotyledon
A food storage tissue
endosperm
The food for the embryo plant comes from either the _______ and ________.
endosperm, cotyledon
A running down
entropy
In order for a plant to grow it must overcome the basic universal law of ________.
entropy
The beginning of development of a plant from a seed is called _________.
germination
A flowering plant with seeds having one seed leaf
monocotyledon
The study of growth characteristics of a plant is called developmental ________.
morphology
Match to show the differences between monocots and dicots.
one seed leaf: monocot two seed leaves: dicot netted leaf structure: dicot parallel leaf structure: monocot cotyledons: dicot food endosperm: monocot food
A plant that continues to live for many years is termed a(n) _______.
perennial
A pre-packaged miniature plant with food and covering is a good description for a(n) _______.
seed
Two ancient perennial plants cited in the text are the _________ and the ________.
sequoia, bristle cone pine
The physical law of _________ describes the universe as increasing in disorganization, degeneration, and eventual death.
thermodynamics
