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 |