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Plant Diversity 2

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In an angiosperm, a short stem with four sets of modified leaves, bearing structures that function in sexual reproduction.
A modified leaf in angiosperms that helps enclose and protect a flower bud before it opens.
A modified leaf of a flowering plant. Petals are the often colorful parts of a flower that advertise it to insects and other pollinators.
The pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an anther and a filament.
In angiosperms, the thin stalk portion of the stamen, pollen producing reproductive organ in flowers.
In an angiosperm the terminal pollen sac of a stamen where pollen grains with male gametes form.
female reproductive organ of the flower.
Sticky part of a flowers carpel which traps pollen grains.
stalk that connects the stigma to the ovary.
the organ that bears the ovules of a flower.
mature ovary of a flower that protects dormant seeds and aids in their dispersal.
pore in the integuments of the ovule.
A mechanism of fertilization in angiosperms, in which two sperm cells unite with two cells in the embryo sac to form the zygote and endosperm
Contains storted food that helps the embryo grow.
nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants.
A clade consisting of flowering plants that have one embyonic seed leaf, or cotyledon.
A term traditionally used to refer to flowering plants that have two embryonic seed leaves, or cotyledons.

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