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 |
Chapter 22 Plant Diversity Vocab
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