Botany

Botany

Terms that are in relation to the study or science of plants.

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Sessile

Plants; Botany

Without a stalk (when applied to a stigma, indicates that the style is absent, the stigma being 'sessile' on the ovary).

Limb

Plants; Botany

The upper, free, spreading portion of a corolla or perianth that is connate at the base.

Thallus

Plants; Botany

The vegetative body of a plant that is not differentiated into organs such as stems and leaves, e.g. Algae, the gametophytes of many liverworts, and Lemnaceae.

Pericarp

Plants; Botany

The wall of a fruit, developed from the ovary wall.

Meiosis

Plants; Botany

The two-stage division of a diploid nucleus, occurring once in every sexual life cycle, in which gene recombination occurs and the number of chromosomes characteristic of the sporophyte plant is ...

Genotype

Plants; Botany

The total complement of hereditary factors (genes) acquired by an organism from its parents and available for transmission to its offspring. Cf. Phenotype.