Ch. 23 Vocabulary Biology Young
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- dicots
- flowering plants that produce seeds with two seed leaves
- phloem
- a kind of tissue that organic nutrients and water are transported in a relatively soft walled cell
- vascular plants
- plants that have a vascular system
- meristems
- zones of actively dividing plants that produce plant growth
- endosperm
- the sees of angiosperm's supllu of stored food
- seed
- a structure that contains the embryo of a plant
- monocots
- flowering plants that produce seeds
- shoot
- the part of the plants body that grows mostly upward
- fronds
- a rhizome that is anchored by roots and leaves
- vegetatvie part
- any nonreproductive part of a plant
- cone
- a structure that forms clusters of nongreen spore-bearing leaves
- nonvascular plants
- plants that have no vascular system
- root
- the part of the body that grows downward
- flower
- a reproductive structure that produces pollen and seeds
- cereals
- grasses that are grown as food for humans as livestock
- vascular system
- a system of well-developed vascular tissues that distrubute materials more efficiently
- grain
- large numbers of a type of edible dry fruit
- embryo
- an early stage in the development of plants and animals
- cuticle
- a wazy layer hat coers the nonwoody aboveground parts of most plants
- seed plants
- vascular plants that produce seeds
- angiosperms
- seed plants that are flowering
- gymnosperms
- seed plants whose seeds dont develop within a sealed container
- xylem
- a kind of tissue that water and nutrients are transferred in hard walled cells
- guard cells
- specialized cells that border each stoma
- stomata
- pores that allow plants to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
- rhizoids
- hairlike projections that anchor the gametophytes to the surfaces on which they grow