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 |