seed plants
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| 19585700 | sporophyte | the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | |
| 19585701 | seed | embryo of a living plant that is encased in a protective covering and surrounded by a food supply | |
| 19585702 | integuments | layers of sporophyte tissue that envelop and protect the megasporangium in gymnosperms. | |
| 19585703 | ovule | the structure composed of a megasporangium, megaspore, and their integuments. | |
| 19585704 | heterosporous | A term referring to a plant species that has two kinds of spores: microspores that develop into male gametophytes and megaspores that develop into female gametophytes. | |
| 19585705 | megasporangia | where megaspores are produced from meiosis of megaspore mother cells | |
| 19585706 | microsporangia | where microspores are produced that give rise to male gametophytes. the microsporangium is contained within a pollen grain | |
| 19585707 | sporophylls | Modified scalelike leaves of gymnosperms where ovules and seeds develop on the surface | |
| 19585708 | sporangia | multicellular organs that produce spores | |
| 19585709 | monocots | A clade consisting of flowering plants that have one embyonic seed leaf, or cotyledon. | |
| 19585710 | dicots | Two cotyledons. Flower parts in fours or fives, vascular tissue in distinct bundles arranged in a circle, taproot system, leaves with netted veins. | |
| 19585711 | vascular tissue | Specialized tissue that transport water and nutrients to plant consists of xylem and phloem | |
| 19585712 | xylem | plant vascular tissue that carries water and minerals from the roots up through a plant;helps support a plant | |
| 19585713 | tracheids | long, tapered xylem cells, provide mechanical support and transport water | |
| 19585714 | flower | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | |
| 19585715 | flower parts | 4 circles of modified leaves: sepals. petals, stamens, carpels | |
| 19585716 | sepals | Outermost leaf part of flower; protects bud | |
| 19585717 | petals | parts above sepals usually colored | |
| 19585718 | stamens | the male reproductive structures, the sporophylls that produce microspores,consist of anther and a filament | |
| 19585719 | carpels | The female reproductive organ of a flower,that make megaspores consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary. | |
| 19585720 | filament | the stalk of a stamen | |
| 19585721 | anther | the terminal pollen sac of a stamen where pollen grains with male gametes form | |
| 19585722 | stigma | sticky part on the end of the carpel (also called pistil) that captures pollen grains | |
| 19585723 | style | the narrow elongated part at the base of the carpel ( also called pistil) that leads to the ovary | |
| 19585724 | fruit | a mature ovary, ovaries are only in angiosperms | |
| 19585725 | pericarp | the thickened wall of a fruit, used to be the ovary. | |
| 19585726 | cross pollination | transfer of pollen from flower of one plant to the sticky stigma of another plant | |
| 19585727 | double fertilization | unique to angiosperms, term used to describe one sperm fusing with the egg, while the other fuses with two nuclei in the large central cell of the famale gametophyte.results in triploid nucleus 3n | |
| 19585728 | cotyledons | The structures where food is stored in seeds composed of one or two seed leaves | |
| 19585729 | endosperm | a triploid tissue providing food for the embryo in angiosperms | |
| 19585730 | ovules | Structure that develops within ovary of seed plant and contains female gametophyte. |
