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STUDENT PACKET
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SC.912.L.14.7
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEM ATICS AND SCIENCE
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Ms. Perla Tabares Hantman, Chair
Dr. Lawrence S. Feldman, Vice-Chair
Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall
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Department of Mathematics and Science
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Executive Director
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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to provide students with enhancement tutorial sessions that will
enrich the depth of content knowledge of the Biology 1 course. Each tutorial session is aligned to
Biology Annually Assessed Benchmarks of the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
(NGSSS) as described in the course description and the Biology Item Specifications and include
an ExploreLearning Gizmos activity and/or a science demonstration followed by assessment
questions.
The Nature of Science Body of Knowledge (BOK) is embedded in all lessons. Teachers are
encouraged to generate an inquiry-based environment where students grow in scientific thinking
while creating and responding to higher-order questions.
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Table of Contents
Organisms, Populations, and Ecosystems - SC.912.L.14.7 Relate the structure of each of the
major plant organs and tissues to physiological processes.
Activity 1 -Plant Tissues and Organs ..........................................................................................3
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Activity 1 – Plant Tissues and Organs
Engage
Vocabulary: Stomata, Vascular tissue, Stems, Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Guard cells,
Phloem, Xylem
1. What are the basic components of any plant? Why are they important?
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2. Draw the different tissues and organ parts of a plant that you have learned before.
3. Observe the pictures of the basic parts of a plant and its tissues* and then redraw your
pictures here:
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Explain
Background on Fruits and Vegetables and Plant Parts
Each part of a plant has characteristic features that can be used for identification. Many plant
parts have been modified by natural selection or artificial selection and no longer serve their
original purpose, but still resemble the original parts in most ways and can be identified with
careful observation.
Stems can be located either above or below ground. They have segments, which consist of
nodes and internodes. Lateral buds are located at the nodes and can give rise to lateral branches
or leaves. The main purpose of stems is to connect leaves and roots and to support the above
ground part of the plant so leaves can capture sunlight. Stems contain vascular tissue like the
vessels and tracheids of the xylem that transport water and inorganic solutes (dissolved minerals)
from the roots to other plant organs like leaves, flower and fruit. The sieve tubes and sieve cells
of the phloem are transporting organic products from the leaves to other plant organs like stem
growing points, flowers, fruit, seed and roots where it is utilized for energy or stored as reserve
food. Some underground stems, such as white potatoes, have been modified for storage and can
be quite fat and fleshy. The presence of branches or leaves emerging from nodes (eyes) indicates
that the structure is a stem. The internodes in some root vegetables can be very compressed
leading to extremely short stems, but small leaves can sometimes be seen protruding. In onions
and garlic the stem is reduced into a flat plate below the bulb, which connects the leaves, which
form the bulb to the stringy roots below.
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Leaves can be located either above or below ground. If they are above ground, their primary
purpose is photosynthesis and they will be green. Developing leaves emerge from the stem at
lateral buds, which occur at the nodes. Most of the leaves we eat as vegetables come from dicot
plants, which have a wide flat portion, called a blade and a stalk-like part called the petiole. In
monocot plants such as onions, garlic and scallions, some leaves located underground are
modified for storage and may be fleshy, while others aboveground are green and slender. A
conspicuous feature in all leaves is the presence of veins.
Roots are primarily located below ground. Their two main functions for plants are anchorage and
absorption of water and nutrients, but many root vegetables are important storage organs. Sugars
manufactured above ground through photosynthesis are stored in large taproots such as sugar
beets, carrots and sweet potatoes. Do not confuse yams, which are underground stems similar
to white potatoes, with the sweet potatoes they resemble, Large taproots can have lateral roots
and root hairs, but they do not have nodes and internodes like stems.
The epidermis is also a complex plant tissue, and an interesting one at that. Officially, the
epidermis is the outermost layer of cells on all plant organs (roots, stems, leaves). The epidermis
is in direct contact with the environment and therefore is subject to environmental conditions and
constraints. Generally, the epidermis is one cell layer thick, however there are exceptions such
as tropical plants where the layer may be several cells thick and thus acts as a sponge. Cutin, a
fatty substance secreted by most epidermal cells, forms a waxy protective layer called the cuticle.
The thickness of the cuticle is one of the main determiners of how much water is lost by
evaporation. Additionally, the cuticle provides some resistance to bacteria and other disease
organisms.
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Some plants, such as the wax palm, produce enough cuticle to have commercial value: carnauba
wax. Other wax products are used as polishes, candles and even phonographic records.
Epidermal cells are important for increasing absorptive surface area in root hairs. Root hairs are
essentially tubular extensions of the main root body composed entirely of epidermal cells. Leaves
are not left out. They have many small pores called stomata that are surrounded by pairs of
specialized epidermal cells called guard cells. Their main function is to allow gases such as carbon
dioxide, water vapor and oxygen to move rapidly into and out of the leaf . Guard cells are unique
epidermal cells because they are of a different shape and contain chloroplasts. They control the
water evaporating off of the leaves and the amount of gas exchange that is needed by the plant.
Flowers and flower buds are located above ground. They are the reproductive structures of the
plant designed to attract pollinators. They are often, but not always attached to the terminal ends
of branches. In broccoli and cauliflower small round buds are clustered tightly together. If these
buds are opened, the small pistils and stamens of flowers can be seen with a hand lens. An
artichoke is the bud of a larger flower and the pistils and stamens can be found in the central
choke portion.
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Fruits are located above ground. They are reproductive structures of the plant designed for seed
dispersal. A common way for plants to disperse their seeds is to attract animal dispersers by
making their fruit sweet and colorful. The animals will then eat the fruit and disperse the seeds
later in their feces. The same qualities that attract animal dispersers also make fruit attractive and
tasty to humans. Botanically, a fruit is defined by the presence of seeds. If a plant part has seeds
it is a fruit.
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Explore
What parts of a plant do we eat?
© 2009 Dr. Jennifer Doherty and Dr. Lori Spindler, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
All flowering plants have the same general body plan: roots, stems, branches, leaves, flowers,
and fruits. Complete the table below by describing the function for each plant part.
Plant Part
Function
Leaves
Stems and
Branches
Flowers
Fruits
Roots
Xylem
Phloem
Stomata
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Over the last 140-180 million years of angiosperm evolution natural selection has resulted in many
different variations on this basic form and not all of the parts are where you might expect them to
be. For example, much of a tulip’s belowground energy storage is not in roots like most plants but
in an underground stem surrounded by fleshy leaves, a bulb. (See the figure on the next page.)
Humans began domesticating plants over 12,000 years ago. During domestication, plants (and
animals) undergo evolution by selection as farmers choose which individuals in the population will
reproduce. When this human preference is the environment that exerts a selective force on a
population, we call the selection artificial selection. By only allowing plants with traits we enjoy,
like larger and sweeter fruits, to reproduce, humans, like nature, have caused many changes in
plant form.
In today’s lab your goal is to identify which part (root, stem, leaf, flower, or fruit) of a domesticated
plant we eat. Before you start it will be helpful to review the structure of flowers and the meaning
of the word “fruit.”
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Label the parts of a flower in the diagram shown below.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
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Which part of the flower becomes a fruit?
How can you tell if a plant organ is a fruit?
Sometimes, a plant organ that is biologically a fruit is called a “vegetable” in everyday English.
This is because these fruits have lower amounts of the sugar fructose and are used in savory
rather than sweet cooking. Can you think of two fruits that are called vegetables?
Your teacher will supply several foods and vegetables for you to examine. In the table below,
record which part of the plant each of these is, what evidence you used to make that conclusion,
and whether it is a fruit or a vegetable in everyday English. It will be helpful to refer to the figures
and table on pages 1 and 2 and ask yourself, “How can I tell if this plant part is a root/stem/leaf
etc.?” If you have conflicting evidence, what else would you need to know to make your decision?
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Name
Plant Part
Evidence/Further information
Fruit or
Vegetable in
everyday
English?
Which parts(s) of the plant observed would the xylem is found?
Which part(s) of the plant would the material carried by the xylem go to?
What type of material is transported by the xylem?
Where do most of the organic products transported by the phloem end up in a flowering plant?
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Evaluate - Plant Tissues and Organs
1. What are some of the functions of roots?
2. What is the function of phloem?
3. What does the xylem do?
4. In a rainforest, water pools on the leaves of the different plants and can stay stagnant on the
stomata of the leaves. What would be a negative effect of this occurrence?
5. Terrestrial plants have stomata on the surface of their leaves. A single stoma is surrounded
by two guard cells that change shape in response to environmental factors and open or close
the stoma. Which of the following best explains how the structure of the leaf is used in
processes that occur in the plant?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Water enters the plant through the surf ace of the leaf for transpiration.
Gases for photosynthesis are exchanged through the surface of the leaf.
Energy for cellular reproduction is absorbed through the surf ace of the leaf.
Carbon dioxide enters the plant through the surf ace of the leaf for cellular respiration
6. Draw the main parts of the plant. Write down its function and importance for the plant.
Plant Parts
Drawing
Function and Importance
Stem
Root
Leaves
Flower
Fruit
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