Biology
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
s
a
l
One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower
2.
l
a
g
e
l
u
A lash-like appendage used for locomotion
3.
p
t
l
Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored
5.
f
l
o
r
A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
6.
s
e
m
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
7.
r
a
m
e
c
i
m
Any member of the genus ___
8.
o
r
m
o
n
The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has
9.
p
i
s
i
The female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
11.
i
e
c
y
c
e
A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
12.
n
t
e
r
The part of the stamen that contains pollen
14.
p
i
d
An oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents
15.
e
e
d
A small hard fruit
17.
l
u
n
Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates
18.
s
t
e
n
The male reproductive organ of a flower
19.
c
b
o
n
d
i
o
d
e
A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic
20.
m
i
o
s
s
Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
21.
i
r
u
Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts
23.
o
e
u
l
e
The simplest structural unit of an element or compound
24.
o
o
t
The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes