Stems

Question 1

Indeterminate Growth

Answer 1

Continuous, non-terminating growth seen in plants where they keep producing new shoots, leaves, and flowers as long as environmental conditions allow

Question 2

Stems vs. Roots

Answer 2

Stems have a waxy cuticle while roots do not.

Both have a cortex for food/water storage, and a xylem/phloem

Question 3

Cells produced by vascular cambium become…

Answer 3

Tracheids, vessel, elements, and fibers of the secondary xylem

Sieve tube members and companion cells of secondary phloem

Question 4

Tracheids Angiosperm vs. Gymnosperm

Answer 4

Angiosperms have both vessel elements and tracheids to move water through the plant, but gymnosperms only have tracheids

Question 5

Stele

Answer 5

A central cynder of xylem, phloem, and the pith present in younger (and a few older) stems and roots

Question 6

Prostele

Answer 6

a sold core of conducting tissues in which the phloem usually surrounds the xylem

found in ferns ad clubmosses

Question 7

Siphonosteles

Answer 7

steles that are tubular with a pith in the center common in ferns

Question 8

Eusteles

Answer 8

Steles common in flowering plants and confiers where the primary xylem and primary phloem are in discrete vascular bundles