Plant Structure: Leaves, Stems, and Roots - Notes

Bean leaf, simple/compound leaves, monocot, willow, woody twig.

PART A - LEAVES P. 21

  1. Bean plant parts: terminal and axillary buds, blade (simple leaf), petiole, nodes, internodes, fruit.
  2. Various simple and compound leaves, monocot and dicot. Monocot - parallel; dicot - branched, netlike. Palmate, pinnate; opposite, alternate.
  3. Syringa slide parenchyma cells are photosynthetic: pallisade and spongy..
  4. Tradescantia slide stomata (collect sample from prairie)

PART B - STEMS P. 27

  1. Bean plant with apical bud
  2. Coleus stem tip slide
  3. Woody twig (deciduous) with terminal and axillary buds, bud scales and bud scale scars, leaf scars.
  4. Zea xs slide stem
  5. Ranunculus stem xs slide
  6. Tilia xs slide (collect sample with growth rings)

PART C - ROOTS P. 33; Figure 10 P. 34

  1. Ranunculus root xs slide
  2. Allium ls slide

EXPERIMENTS:

  1. Bean plant germination: bean seeds, 150 ml beakers, paper towels, dark cabinet
  2. Apical dominance: bean plants, razor, lanolin, 1% auxin
Vascular.doc Peanut shells: two seeds with brown seed coats.

Index Lab notes made Jul 23, 2009 by Peter Chen