Plant Trivia! Worth a LOT of points! Name a country that named after a plant.
Brazil is named after the Brazilwood Tree.
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What are seeds?
Seeds are mature, fertilized ovules. They can be described as the dispersal and propagation units of seed plants, conifers and angiosperms.
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In plants, what is meiosis used for?
Meiosis is used for making haploid gametes (sperm and egg)
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What are ovules?
They are basically the "ovaries" of plants where haploid egg cells are produced.
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Which type of plant only has one cotyledon
Monocotyledons (also known as monocots)
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Which type of plant has two cotyledons?
Dicotyledons (also known as Dicots)
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Plant Trivia! For a lot of points! How many pencils can be made from an average sized tree?
Around 170,000.
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If a cell is haploid, what does it contain?
The cell will contain only HALF of the chromosomes needed to be that organism. The chromosomes will NOT be partnered up.
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In plant embryos, what is an epicotyl? What does it do?
A region of an embryonic stem just above the cotyledon. This part of the embryo grows very quickly and ensures the plant breaks the surface of the soil.
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Plant Trivia! Worth a LOT of points! Peaches, pears, apricots, strawberries, and apples are all members of which taxonomic Family?
The Rose Family.
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What is the function of a cotyledon? What does it do?
A cotyledon is the part of the seed that will grow into the leaves.
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In plants, what are embryos?
An embryo is a "baby plant" found within a seed. It is a immature sporophyte. It is diploid and the result of fertilization.
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In a plant seed, what is endosperm? What does it do?
Endosperm is the food storage tissue inside a seed. An embryo gets nutrition from endosperm until it can photosynthesize for itself. Endosperm is triploid (3n),
