Exam 29: Life Cycles of Flowering Plants

____ of our food crops are the fruits of angiosperms.

____-pollinated flowers are typically small, nonfragrant, and green, with large stigmas and insignificant petals or sepals.

A flower that lacks one or more of the four types of modified leaves is referred to as ____.

The ____ consists of a whorl of petals.

What structure protects the embryonic shoot of many monocots?​

Describe where pollen grains are produced in a plant.

-ovule

What causes the hypocotyl of dicots to straighten?​

What kind of fruit is formed from the fusion of individually pollinated flowers?​

-receptacle

__________ are the specialized reproductive structures of angiosperms.

Fleshy fruits with hard seed coats, such as cherries, are more likely to be dispersed by ____ than by other means.

Figure 29.2A Use the accompanying figure to answer the following question. -The letter "D" in the above figure represents the ____.

Respond to the following statement with reference to the fruit types listed below. -This fleshy fruit often has many seeds and no pit.

__________ is the arrival of pollen grains on a receptive stigma.

The process of germination begins with ____.

Figure 29.12 C Use the accompanying figure of a Capsella seed to answer the following three questions. -The embryonic shoot tip is indicated by the letter ____.

Describe what a typical wind-pollinated flower looks like.

-ovary

Respond to the following statement with reference to the flower parts listed below. -Mitosis and differentiation of this structure produces pollen grains.