Plant biology
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
f
o
w
A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
2.
p
a
Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored
3.
t
u
Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually
7.
a
o
e
s
A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (plural)
8.
b
r
a
e
A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants
9.
e
l
Tiniest unit of living things
10.
m
s
Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
11.
r
n
Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds
13.
n
s
A particle that is electrically charged (plural)
14.
e
c
u
l
The simplest structural unit of an element or compound (plural)
15.
e
l
l
l
A rigid layer of polysaccharides enclosing the membrane of plant and prokaryotic ___
17.
l
g
Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots
20.
a
s
m
s
A living thing that has the ability to act or function independently (plural)
21.
g
s
Oval foods laid by hens
22.
z
g
t
The diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum
23.
r
u
Sweet food that grows on plants