8639258107 | Angiosperm | Most diverse seed plant lineage. Only group that makes flowers and fruits. | 0 | |
8639258108 | Bryophyte | Member of an early-evolving plant lineage with a gametophyte-dominant life cycle; a moss, liverwort, or hornwort. | 1 | |
8639258109 | Carpel | Of flowering plants, a reproductive structure that produces female gametophytes; consists of a stigma, a style, and an ovary. | 2 | |
8639258110 | Coal | Fossil fuel formed over millions of years by compaction and heating of plant remains. | 3 | |
8639258111 | Coevolution | The joint evolution of two closely interacting species; each species is a selective agent for traits of the other. | 4 | |
8639258112 | Conifers | Gymnosperm with non motile sperm and woody cones; for example, pines. | 5 | |
8639258113 | Cuticle | Secreted covering at a body surface. | 6 | |
8639258114 | Cycads | tropical or subtropical gymnosperms with flagellated sperm, palmlike leaves, and fleshy seeds | 7 | |
8639258115 | Double Fertilization | in flowering plants only, one sperm fertilizes an egg to produce a zygote and another fertilizes a diploid cell to create a triploid cell that will develop into endosperm | 8 | |
8639258116 | Embryophyte | land plants; clade of multicelled, photosynthetic species that protect and nourish the embryo on the parental body | 9 | |
8639258117 | Endosperm | triploid (3n) nutritive tissue in an angiosperm seed | 10 | |
8639258118 | Epiphytes | plants that grow on another plant but do not harm it | 11 | |
8639258119 | Eudicots | most diverse lineage of angiosperms; members have two seed leaves, branching leaf veins | 12 | |
8639258120 | Flower | specialized reproductive shoot of a flowering plant | 13 | |
8639258121 | Fruit | Mature ovary of a flowering plant; encloses a seed or seeds. | 14 | |
8639258122 | Gametangia | Gamete-producing organ of a plant. | 15 | |
8639258123 | Gametophyte | A haploid, multicelled body that produces gametes in the life cycle of land plants and some algae. | 16 | |
8639258124 | Ginkgo | Deciduous gymnosperm with flagellated sperm, fan-shaped leaves, and fleshy leaves. | 17 | |
8639258125 | Gnetophyte | Shrubby or vine like gymnosperm, with nonmotile sperm; for example, Ephedra. | 18 | |
8639258126 | Gymnosperm | Seed plant that does not make flowers or fruits; for example, a conifer. | 19 | |
8639258127 | Lignin | Material that stiffens cell walls of vascular plants. | 20 | |
8639258128 | Megaspores | the larger of the two kinds of spores produced by some ferns. | 21 | |
8639258129 | Microspores | The smaller spore produced by sporophytes and develop into male gametophyte | 22 | |
8639258130 | Monocots | an angiospermous plant of the class Monocotyledones, characterized by producing seeds with one cotyledon and an endogenous manner of growth. | 23 | |
8639258131 | Ovary | the enlarged lower part of the pistil in angiospermous plants, enclosing the ovules or young seeds. | 24 | |
8639258132 | Ovules | the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed. | 25 | |
8639258133 | peat bogs | a swamp in which peat has accumulated | 26 | |
8639258134 | Phloem | the part of a vascular bundle consisting of sieve tubes, companion cells, parenchyma, and fibers and forming the food-conducting tissue of a plant. | 27 | |
8639258135 | Plants | multicelled, typically photosynthetic eukaryotes adapted to life on land. | 28 | |
8639258136 | pollen grain | male gametophyte of a seed plant | 29 | |
8639258137 | pollen sacs | of seed plants, sporangium where microspores form and develop into pollen grains | 30 | |
8639258138 | Pollination | arrival of a pollen grain on the egg bearing part of a seed plant | 31 | |
8639258139 | Pollinator | animal that moves pollen, therefore facilitating pollination | 32 | |
8639258140 | Rhizoids | threadlike structures that anchor a bryophyte | 33 | |
8639258141 | Rhizome | stem that grows horizontally along or under the ground | 34 | |
8639258142 | Secondary Metabolite | Are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of an organism. | 35 | |
8639258143 | Seed | the fertilized, mature ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant. | 36 | |
8639258144 | Seed Plant | The spermatophytes, also known as phanerogams or phanerogamae, comprise those plants that produce seeds, hence the alternative name seed plants. They are a subset of the embryophytes or land plants. | 37 | |
8639258145 | Sporangium | a receptacle in which asexual spores are formed. | 38 | |
8639258146 | Sporophyte | the asexual and usually diploid phase, producing spores from which the gametophyte arises. | 39 | |
8639258147 | Stamen | The male part of the flower, containing a pollen-containing anther and a filament | 40 | |
8639258148 | Stomata | Closable gaps defined by guard cells on plant surfaces, and when opened, they allow water vapor and gases to diffuse across the epidermis. | 41 | |
8639258149 | Strobilus, strobili | A cluster of spore producing structures in nonflowering plants | 42 | |
8639258150 | Vascular plant | A plant having specialized tissues that transport water and sugar within the plant body | 43 | |
8639258151 | vascular tissue | 44 | ||
8639258152 | Xylem | the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem. | 45 |
AP Biology Chapter 22 Flashcards
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