Biology 112 Lab
Name:___________________________
Station 1: Green Plants
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How are humans and plants different?
What are the two types of “pipelines” in a plant?
Draw, label and title Slide 1 “XS of leaf, Stained.”
What is a stomata?
Draw, label and title Slide 3 “XS stomata.”
Station 2: The Leaf of a Flowering Plant
1. Draw, label and title the anatomy of a leaf.
2. What are the functions of a leaf?
3. What is the difference between monocot and dicot leaves?
Station 3: The Stem of a Flowering Plant
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What are the functions of the stem?
What are the subclasses of flowering plants?
Draw, label and title slides 1 and 3.
How can you tell how old a tree is?
Station 4: The Root of a Flowering Plant
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What are the functions of the root?
Draw, label and title slides 2 and 4.
What is a “Zone of Growth”?
What is a “Root cap.”
Station 5: Lily: A monocot or dicot?
1. Tape the specimen’s anatomy in the correct places on the back of this sheet.
2. Prepare a thin (very thin) cross section of the stem of your lily and view it under the microscope.
3. A) Is your lily a monocot or dicot?____________________
B) How can you tell?
Station 5: Lily
Tape the correct part of the flower in the boxes provided below.
Anther with Pollen
Filament
Stigma and style (pistil)
Petal
Longitudinal section of ovary
Station 1
Green Plants
Station 2
The Leaf of a Flowering
Plant
Station 3
The Stem of a
Flowering Plant
Station 4
The Root of a Flowering
Plant
Station 5
Lily: Monoct or Dicot?