Network and parallel venation
Integrated Science · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
Two patterns of veins, and they tell you what kind of plant you are holding.
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- Why photosynthesis matters
- The external parts of a leaf
- Network and parallel venation
- Inside a leaf: the layers
- The cuticle and the epidermis
- Palisade and spongy mesophyll
- Stomata and guard cells
- Xylem and phloem in the leaf
- How a leaf is adapted to photosynthesis
- The structure of a chloroplast
- Grana and stroma
- Chlorophyll and light
- Raw materials and products
- The word equation
- Testing a leaf for starch
- Showing that light is necessary
- Showing that carbon (IV) oxide is necessary
- Showing that chlorophyll is necessary