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| A nonflowering seed plant that reproduces by seeds not covered by the walls of an ovary |
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| Any plant that reproduces by seeds formed in flowers |
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| Any group of nonvascular plants with simple, leaflike parts, like mosses and liverworts. |
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| Female reproductive structure in ferns and other plants-produces eggs. |
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| The male or female reproductive cells. |
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| Any of a group of yellow algae- characterized by orante microscopic shells made of silica. |
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| A group of one-celled, photosynthetic aqutic organisms characterized by the presence of two unlike flagella. One type is responsible for the 'Red Tide' |
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| The five types of algae and their characteristics |
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| Green Algae(Largest group, includes Volvox), Yellow Algae(Diatoms), Brown Algae(All marine organisms, includes Kelp and seaweed), Red Algae(live in the sea, a few grow in fresh water, includes dulse, agar and carrageenin) and Blue-Green Algae(classified as bacteria) |
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| An outer layer that covers and protects the organism |
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| A type of plant tissue that makes and stores food. |
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| Sap-conducting tissue that serves as the circulatory system for the plant. |
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| A tissue in plants that consists of rapidly growing and dividing cells that defferentiate to produce new tissues |
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| The Difference Between Vascular and Non-Vascular Plants. |
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| A Non Vascular Plant lacks Vascular Tissue. |
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| Nonvascular plant without chlorophyll that is dependent upon other organisms for food. |
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| Organism that lives on or in another living organism, and derives its nutriton from that organism. |
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| An organism that obtains its nutrition from dead or decaying animals |
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| Part of a cell that contains the genetic code of the cell- the cell's control center |
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| Leaf of an aggregate fruit(a fruit that forms from a single flower with several pistils) |
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| Tiny shoot of a plant's embryo that develops into the plant's stem and leaves |
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| Tiny root of a plant embryo that forms the plants root system. |
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| A root system with only one main root |
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| Method of vegetative propogation similar to slipping that produces new plants from adventitious roots |
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| A type of asexual reproduction in which offspring form from an outgrowth of the parent's body. |
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| Long, fingerlike projections of a root's epidermal cells that increase the root's water absorbing surface area |
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| A fruit that forms from a single flower with several pistils |
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| Subdivision of a skeletal muscle consisting of several dozen endomysium-wrapped muscle cells bound together by an additional sheet of perimysium |
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| Tough, translucent sheath of connective tissue that surrounds a skeletal muscle and binds it together. |
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| Give the body their shape and form. |
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| A group of muscle cells connected to a single muscle nerve |
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| Woody tissue of a stem that carried water and minerals upward to the leaves |
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| Male reproductive part of a flower |
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| A freely movable joint in which the rounded head of one bone fits into a hollow socket of another. |
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| A membrane which lines joint cavities and secretes lubricating synovial fluid |
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| The study of living things |
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| The food making process of green plants |
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| A type of leaf venation that has a single major vein with several veins extending from it. |
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| The transfer of pollen grains from an anther to the stigma. |
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| The body cavity which contains the heart and lungs. |
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| A group of similar cells which work together to accomplish the task of an organ. |
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| A tree that loses its leaves every winter |
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| A plant that produces staminate flowers and pistallate flowers(male and female flowers) on seperate plants |
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| A complex organelle in a green plant cells in which photosynthesis occurs |
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| Where food is stored and transported throughout the plant |
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| Thin, flexible membrane that separates a living cell from its outside, and controls what enters and leaves the cell. |
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| Compound leaves where the leaflets are arranged like the fingers of a hand. |
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| A flower which lacks one of the four main flower parts. |
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| A seed leaf in a plant embryo that contains stored food |
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| A tissue which surrounds the developing embryo of a seed and provides food |
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| Method of vegetative propogation that involves transplanting living tissue from one plant to the other |
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| A root that grows from an unexpected region of the plant |
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| A root system with several main roots |
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| An extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber |
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| A protective sheath that encloses and nourishes a bone. |
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| The point at which a motor nerve connects to a muscle cell |
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| Vascular tissue in plants that transports food downward throughout the plant |
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| Soft storage tissue at the center of the roots and stems that consists of parenchyma cells |
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