Vocabulary from Module 14, from Apologia's High School Biology Course Exploring Creation With Biology, by Dr. Jay Wile and Marilyn F. Durnell (2nd edition). There is also a crossword puzzle with these vocabulary words at e-learninglinks.com.
61420455 | Botany | The study of plants | 1 | |
61420456 | Perennial plants | Plants that grow year after year | 2 | |
61420457 | Annual plants | Plants that live for only one year | 3 | |
61420458 | Biennial plants | Plants that live for two years | 4 | |
61420459 | Vegetative organs | The parts of a plant (such as stems, roots, and leaves) that are not involved in reproduction | 5 | |
61420460 | Reproductive plant organs | The parts of a plant (such as flowers, fruits, and seeds) involved in reproduction | 6 | |
61420461 | Undifferentiated cells | Cells that have not specialized in any particular function | 7 | |
61420462 | Xylem | Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves | 8 | |
61420463 | Phloem | Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant | 9 | |
61420464 | Leaf mosaic | The arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant | 10 | |
61420465 | Leaf margin | The characteristics of the leaf edge | 11 | |
61420466 | Deciduous plant | A plant that loses its leaves for winter | 12 | |
61420467 | Girdling | The process of cutting away a ring of inner and outer bark all the way around a tree trunk | 13 | |
61420468 | Alternation of generations | A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form | 14 | |
61420469 | Dominant generation | In alternation of generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of the life cycle | 15 | |
61420470 | Pollen | A fine dust that contains the sperm of seed-producing plants | 16 | |
61420471 | Cotyledon | A "seed leaf" which develops as a part of the seed- it provides nutrients to the developing seedlings and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant | 17 |