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Chapter 22 Plant Diversity Vocab

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Gamete-producing plant (Haploid)
Spore-producing plant (Diploid)
Non-vascular plants
Long, thin cells that anchor byrophytes to the ground and absorb water and minerals from soil
small multicellular sphere that contains many haploid cells
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
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 the plant
Vascular tissue responsible for the transport of nutrients and the carbs produced by photosynthesis
Substance in vascular plants hat makes cell walls rigid
Underground organ in plants that absorbs water and minerals
A cluster of vascular tissue in leaves
Photosynthetic organ that contains one or more bundles of vascular tissue
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
a seed-bearing structure in gymnosperms
Seed-bearing structure of an angiosperm
male gametophyte in seed plants
Transfer of pollen the male gametophyte to the female gametophyte
Embryo of a living plant that is encased in a protective covering and surrounded by a food supply
early developmental stage of a sporophyte plant
Structure that surrounds and protects a plant embryo and keeps in from drying out
thick wall of tissue surrounding an angiosperm seed
Angiosperm whose seeds have one cotyledon
Angiosperm whose seeds have two cotyledons
Seed leaf in a plant embryo
flowering plant that completes a life cycle in within one growing season
Flowing plant the completes its life cycle in two years
Flowering plant that lives for more than two years

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