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CHRS Botany- Plant Diversity

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A waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves prevents land plants from drying out.
hard, nonliving material that makes up the cell wall of a plant cell
A cell characterized by the presence of a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. This is the type of cell found in plants.
type of organism from which plants evolved.
complex carbohydrate that is used by plants to store the food that they produce; found in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice
three classes of non vascular plants (list alphabetically)
Thread-like structures that anchor nonvascular plants to the ground.
type of cell found in mosses which contain chambers that help store a lot of water. These cells are dead at maturity.
One of several kinds of wetlands that develop in cool, moist, previously glaciated regions of the Northern Hemisphere
Deposits of undecayed organic material formed from the moss Sphagnum.
dominant generation in non-vascular plants
spore containing portion of moss sporophyte
reproductive cells that can develop into another organism without fusing with another cell
a mass of one-cell thick filaments produced by germinating moss spores
a class of vascular, non-seed plant
creeping or underground stem in ferns
The leaf of a fern plant
fern structures in which spores are produced
The fronds of ferns are divided into leaflets called ______
tightly coiled new leaves of young fern

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