Plant Science
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- carrot
- An orange underground root that we eat
- vascular
- Plants with true roots, stems, and leaves
- fibrous
- Similarly sized rppts om tangled mass such as grass
- glucose
- Sugar made during photosynthesis
- reproduction
- Function of a cone or glower on seed plants
- phoem
- Plant cells that carry food down a plant
- diffusion
- Process that moves materials around simple plants like mosses
- embryo
- Young plant in a seed
- herbaceous
- A plant with a flexible green stem
- annual
- Any plant that lives only one growing season
- pistil
- Entire female part of a flower
- tropism
- Response of a plant to a stimulus
- annual rings
- Can be counted to determine the age of a woody perennial
- germination
- Sprouting of an embryo from a seed
- stigma
- Sticky top of femal part of flower
- water
- Compond carried up a plant by xylem cells
- photosynthesis
- The process that occurs in the chloroplasts
- ovary
- Part of flower that contains eggs
- zygote
- A fertilized egg
- evergreens
- A type of gemnosperm that keeps leaves all year
- polination
- Transfer of pollon from male reproductive stucture to femal reproductive structure of a seed plant
- clorophill
- Pigment necessary for green plants to make glucose
- seed case
- Protects the seed
- frond
- Fancy name for fern leaf
- cotyledon
- A seed leaf
- cuticle
- Reduces tranpiration from leaf surface
- anther
- Part of stamen that produces pollen
- angiosperm
- Scientific name for all flowering plants
- plant
- Kingdom of autotrophic, multicellular organisms with cell walls
- cone
- Part of gemnosperm that makes and releases seeds
- fruit
- Develops from thickened flower ovary wall and contains seeds
- perennial
- A pant that lives many years
- xylem
- Plant cells that tramsport materials up a plant
- root
- Basic plant part that absorbs water and minerals from soil and anchors plant to ground
- needle
- Shape of leaf on many gemnosperm
- stem
- The part of the plant that serves as the highway between leaves and roots
- hairs
- Increase surface area of roots for water and mineral absorption
- stoma
- Opening in leaf surface for gas exchange
- non vascular
- Plants with no true roots, stems, and leaves
- spores
- Reproductive cells ferns make in spore cases
- seeds
- Develop in ovules in ovary of a flower
- cambium
- Layer of stem cells that produces new vascular tissue
- Stamen
- Entire male part of a flower
- veins
- Tubes in a leaf, stem, or root made of xylem and phloem
- moss
- A small, simple plant that reproduces with spores and usually grows in shaded soil
- pine
- An example of a gemnosperm
- egg
- Female sex cell made in flower ovary
- flower
- The reproductive organ of an angiosperm
- sperm
- Male reproductive cells made by flower pollon