Monday, August 31, 2015

1. Monocot plant with flower & leaf



  • Most monocot plants (herbaceous plants) are annual plants and tend to be thinner than woody (dicot plant) stems. They're usually softer, more bendable and greener. The stem dies down to soil level at the end of a season. Monocot plants are often referred to as herbaceous plants. Both monocots and dicots are flowering plants, but monocots have parallel leaf veins, one cotyledon, flowers in multiples of three and no cortex. Grass is an example of a monocot plant.

2. Auxin producing area of a plant



  • Auxin is a plant hormone found in the tip of the stem. Auxins are usually defined by their ability to induce cell elongation in stems, although they can also affect other processes. In other words, they are what cause the plant to form leaves and exhibit photo tropism. All leafy plants have this hormone.

3. Autotroph


  • An organism capable of makings its own food.

4. Xylem




  • The vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

5. Vascular plant

  • A plant that is characterized by the presence of conducting tissue.

  • The tissue in vascular plants that circulates fluid and nutrients. There are two kinds of vascular tissue: xylem, which conducts water and nutrients up from the roots, and phloem, which distributes food from the leaves to other parts of the plant

6. Arthropod



  • An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages

7. keratin



  • a fibrous protein forming the main structural constituent of hair, feathers, hoofs, claws, horns

8. Connective tissue

  • Tissue that connects, supports, binds, or separates other tissues or organs, typically having relatively few cells embedded in an amorphous matrix, often with collagen or other fibers, and including cartilaginous, fatty, and elastic tissues.

9. Batesian Mimicry


  • Mimicry in which an edible animal is protected by its resemblance to a noxious one that is avoided by predators.

10. Leaf gymnosperm



  • Any of a group of plants that produce seeds that are not enclosed in a fruit or ovary. These are two examples of leaf gymnosperm

11. Phloem


  • They are like veins in our body carrying nutrients around the plant.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

12. Abscisic Acid


  • A plant hormone that promotes leaf detachment, induces seed and bud dormancy, and inhibits germination. Its role in the abscission of plant leaves. In preparation for winter, ABA is produced in terminal buds. This slows plant growth and directs leaf primordia to develop scales to protect the dormant buds during the cold season.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

13. Adaptation of an animal




  • A mutation, or genetic change, That Helps an organism,: such as a plant or animals , survive in Its environment. It's Helpful Due to the nature of the mutation, it is passed down from one generation to the next.
  • A dog’s whiskers are actually highly tuned, multi-functional, sensitive sensory hairs they need and use every day to perform specific functions that help them move around.

14. Heartwood


  • The dense inner part of a tree trunk, yielding the hardest timber.

15. Amylase



  • An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of starch into sugars. Amylase is present in the saliva of humans and some other mammals, where it begins the chemical process of digestion.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

16.Tendril of a plant


  • a slender leafless winding stem by which some climbing plants attach themselves to a support

17. Frond



  • the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant

18. Ectotherm


  • an animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat.

19. Endotherm




  • an animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.

20. Fermentation


  • the process of fermentation involved in the making of beer, wine, and liquor, in which sugars are converted to ethyl alcohol.
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      Grapes are used to make wine, through the process of fermentation.

21. Radical symmetry



  • organism in which a vertical cut through the axis in any of two or more produces two of the same image. In this picture there is a lemon cut in half, it had radical symmetry. Once cut it looked like the other half and if cut again.

22. Bryophyte


  • a small flowerless green plant of the division Bryophyta, which comprises the mosses and liverworts.

23. Adaptation of a plant



  • A mutation, or genetic change, That Helps an organism,: such as a plants or animals , survive in Its environment. It's Helpful Due to the nature of the mutation, it is passed down from one generation to the next.
Aloe vera plants have adapted to habitats with low water availability. Aloes adapt to this by using their tissue to store large volumes of water. Aloe vera has thick and fleshy leaves, which are enlarged to accommodate the aqueous tissue. The leaf cuticle is thick and covered with a layer of wax.

Monday, August 24, 2015

24. Cuticle layer of plant



  •  The cuticle is the waxy coating on the uppermost surface of this leaf, the picture of the leaf is composed of layers and its shiny, the cuticle help the plant from water lost.


25. Scale with animal with two chambered heart


  • an animal that has scales and two chambered heart. This picture shows a fish, a fish has scales and a two chambered heart.


Saturday, August 22, 2015

26. Exoskeleton



  • An Exoskeleton is an outer covering that some animals have that protect them in a casing. This is an example of such an exoskeleton.


27. Basidiomycete



  • Mushrooms are examples of basidiomycetes, which are a type of fungi that bear sexually reproduced spores on a basidium.

28. Xerophyte




  • a plant that needs very little water.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

29. Enzyme

  • A chemical produced by cells to speed up specific chemical reaction. This picture shows an apple turning brown, which is releasing the enzyme.


30. C4 Plant

  • A type of plant that uses a specific photosynthesis mechanism (C4 photosynthesis) in order to avoid photorespiration (a wasteful reaction that occurs when plants take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide, instead of taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen).

31. Flower Ovary


  • In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium. Specifically, it is the part of the pistil which holds the ovule(s) and is located above or below or at the point of connection with the base of the petals and sepals.

32. Annelid



  • A segmented worm of the phylum Annelida, such as an earthworm or leech.

33. Fruit - dry with seed



  • Dry fruits can be divided into those in which the seeds are contained in a seedpod of some sort which opens to release the seeds (called Dehiscent), and those in which there isn't a seedpod which opens (Indehiscent).

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

34. Stem - Herbaceous



  • An herbaceous plant (in American botanical use simply herb) is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. 

Saturday, August 15, 2015

35. Fruit - fleshy with seed



  • Fleshy fruits are fruits that have a flesh area between the seeds and the skin.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

36. Mutualism



  • The giant panda has a mutualistic relationship with the bacteria in its stomach. The bacteria helps break down nutrients and vitamins that helps shape their immune system.

37. Deciduous leaves


  • Leaves that fall off or shed at a particular season or stage of growth.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

38. Angiosperm



  • A plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel. The angiosperms are a large group and include herbaceous plants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees.

39. Stem - woody



  • woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue. Woody plants are usually either trees, shrubs, or lianas.

40. Epithelial tissue

  •   Membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body
  •  Skin is a form of epithelial tissue, the human body is covered with epithelial tissue. 

41. Dicot plant with flower and leaf




  • Flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.

42. Pollen



  • A fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone. 

43. Animal that has a segmented body



  •  An ant has a segmented body, which is a body divided into segments that are often grouped into larger functional units.

44.Amniotic Egg



  • This is a chicken egg found in my refrigerator which is an example of an amniotic egg. Birds, such as chickens, and reptiles give birth through amniotic eggs which contain a yolk to nourish their young.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

45. Thorn of a plant



  • a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.

46. Long-Day plant



  • Plants that have flowers that bloom only when they receive more than twelve hours of sunlight per day. They bloom only when the days are long, where there is less darkness, especially during the summer months.
    • Ex. Lettuce

47. Conifer leaves



  • scale like leaves

48. Anther and filament of stamen



  •  The very tip of the stamen is the anther, and the stem part is the filament.

49. Pollinator



  •  Pollinators are what move pollen from the anthers of a flower onto the stigmas.