Texas FFA Nursery Landscape Practice Exam

The term that describes a plant producing either stamens or pistils, but not both on the same plant is dioecious. In dioecious species, individual plants are either male, producing only staminate flowers, or female, producing only pistilate flowers. This characteristic ensures outcrossing and genetic diversity, as both male and female plants are needed in proximity for pollination to occur and for the fruit or seeds to develop.

In contrast, monoecious plants have both staminate and pistilate flowers on the same individual, allowing a single plant to produce seeds without the need for another plant nearby. Angiosperms refer broadly to flowering plants, encompassing both dioecious and monoecious groups without specifying their reproductive structures. Staminate simply refers to plants or flowers that possess only male reproductive organs. Thus, the most appropriate term for a plant system exhibiting the described characteristics is dioecious.