Chapter 22: Plant Diversity
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| diploid, or spore-producing, phase of an organism | ||
| haploid, or gamete-producing, phase of an organism | ||
| nonvascular plant; examples are mosses and their relatives | ||
| in fungi, a rootlike hypha that penetrates the surface of an object; in mosses, a long, thin cell that anchors the moss to the ground and absorbs water and minerals from the surrounding soil | ||
| small cup-shaped structure in liverworts that contains many haploid cells; used for asexual reproduction | ||
| mass of tangled green filaments in mosses that forms during germination | ||
| male reproductive structure in some algae and plants | ||
| female reproductive structure in some plants, including mosses and liverworts | ||
| type of plant tissue specialized to conduct water and nutrients throughout a plant | ||
| hollow plant cell in xylem tissue with thick cell walls that resist pressure | ||
| vascular tissue that carries water upward from the roots to every part of a plant | ||
| vascular tissue responsible for the transport of nutrients and the carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis | ||
| substance in vascular plants that makes cell walls rigid | ||
| underground organ in plants that absorbs water and minerals | ||
| photosynthetic organ that contains one or more bundles of vascular tissue | ||
| in plants, a cluster of vascular tissue in leaves; in animals, a blood vessel that returns blood to the heart | ||
| supporting structure that connects roots and leaves and carries water and nutrients between them | ||
| creeping or underground stem in ferns | ||
| large leaf of a fern | ||
| structure in ferns and some fungi that contains spores | ||
| cluster of sporangia on the underside of a fern frond | ||
| seed plant that bears its seeds directly on the surfaces of cones | ||
| flowering plant; bears its seeds within a layer of tissue that protects the seed | ||
| in gymnosperms, a seed-bearing structure; in the retina of the eye, a photoreceptor that responds to light of different colors, producing color vision | ||
| seed-bearing structure of an angiosperm | ||
| male gametophyte in seed plants | ||
| transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structure to the female reproductive structure | ||
| embryo of a living plant that is encased in a protective covering and surrounded by a food supply | ||
| organism in its early stage of development | ||
| structure that surrounds and protects a plant embryo and keeps it from drying out | ||
| wall of tissue surrounding an angiosperm seed | ||
| angiosperm whose seeds have one cotyledon | ||
| angiosperm whose seeds have two cotyledons | ||
| first leaf or first pair of leaves produced by the embryo of a seed plant | ||
| flowering plant that completes a life cycle within one growing season | ||
| flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years | ||
| flowering plant that lives for more than two years |
