1. Plant Structure & Growth
Chapter 35
Plant Structure & Growth

2. Lettuce Spinach Carrot
What headings
can be given to
the following:
Lettuce
Spinach
Carrot
Apples
Oranges
Peas

3. What is a vegetable?
What is a fruit?

4. Lettuce Spinach Carrot
What headings
can be given to
the following:
vegetable
fruit
Lettuce
Spinach
Carrot
Apples
Oranges
Peas

5. Point Plants have organs too, just like animals.
Asexual organs (vegetables)
Sexual organs (fruits)

6. Asexual Organs
1. Stem
2. Leaf
3. Root

7. Sexual Organs
1. Flowers
2. Fruits
3. Seeds

8. Main Tissue Systems
1. Dermal
2. Vascular
3. Ground

9. 1. Dermal
Epidermis prevent water loss water absorption (root hairs)

10. 2. Vascular
xylem & phloem transport support

11. XYLEM - dead @ maturity / insides disintegrates
XYLEM - maturity / insides disintegrates made of tracheids & vessel elements

12. PHLOEM - alive @ maturity / transports sugar made of sieve tubes

13. 3. Ground  tissue between vascular & dermal
cushion & support

14. How does plant growth and animal growth differ ?
Question ?
How does plant growth and animal growth differ ?
determinate
indeterminate

15. Plant Meristems Perpetual embryonic regions. Zones for cell division.
Do not stop growing (like us humans)

16. Plant Meristems 1. Apical growth in length. Primary growth.
2. Lateral/Cambiums growth in diameter. Secondary growth.
perpetual embryonic regions

17. Plant Meristems

18. Angiosperm stems

19. eudicots

20. monocot
eudicot

21. monocot
eudicot

22. monocot
eudicot

23. monocot
dicot

24. monocot
eudicot

25. Summary Know the main organs of plants and their functions.
Know the main cell types or tissues in plants and their functions.

26. Summary Know the structural organization of stems, roots, and leaves.
Know the differences between eudicots and monocots.