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Nonvascular plant that lives on land but lacks some of the terrestrial adaptations of vascular plants.
(i.e moss, liverwort, hornwort) |
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No vascular tissue; cannot retain or transport water
No true roots, stems, or leaves |
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| Well developed vascular system to retain and transport water and minerals |
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| A flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary |
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| A vascular plant that bears naked seeds |
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| Flowering plants that have one embryonic seed leaf (cotyledon) |
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| Most flowering plants that have two embryonic seed leaves (cotyledons) |
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| A seed leaf of an angiosperm embryo |
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| All roots which anchor a plant in the soil, absorb and transport water and minerals, and store food |
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| Organ consisting of an alternating system of nodes and internodes that support the leaves and reproductive structures |
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| Organ in a vascular plant that anchors the plant, absorbs water and minerals from soil |
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| The main photosynthetic organ of a vascular plant |
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| Point along the plant stem at which leaves are attached |
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| A segment of a plant stem between the points where leaves are attached |
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| Bud at the tip of a plant stem (terminal bud) |
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| Structure that has the potential to form a lateral shoot or branch. Appears in the angle formed between leaf and stem |
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| Tiny extensions of a root epidermal cell, increasing surface area for absorption of water and minerals |
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| a main vertical root that develops from an embryonic root and gives rise to lateral roots |
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| Consists of numerous, very fine branch like roots |
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Root growing from location other than underground
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| Cloning of plants by asexual means |
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| Concentration of growth at the tip of a plant shoot, where a terminal bud partially inhibits axillary bud growth |
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| A shoot that bends to the ground or that grows horizontally above the ground and produces roots and shoots at the nodes |
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| Long, tubular single cells or filament of cells that anchor bryophytes to the ground |
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| Flat portion of a typical leaf; Main source of photosynthesis |
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| The stalk of a leaf, which joins the leaf to a node of the stem |
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| A waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves that acts as an adaptation that prevents desiccation in terrestrial plants |
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| The protective coat that replaces the epidermis in woody plants during secondary growth, formed of the cork and cork cambium |
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| Vascular plant tissue consisting of living cells that transport sugar and other organic nutrients |
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| Vascular plant tissue, mainly of dead cells that conduct most of the water an minerals upward from the roots to the rest of the plant |
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| A short, wide water conducting cell found in the xylem of most angiosperms and a few nonflowering vascular plants |
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| Long, tapered water conducting cell found in the xylem of nearly all vascular plants; non-living |
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| A living cell that conducts sugars and other organic nutrients in the phloem of angiosperms |
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| A type of plant cell that is connected to a sieve tube element by many plasmodesmata; Nucleus and ribsomes may serve one or more adjacent sieve tube elements |
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| An open channel in the cell wall of a plant through which strands of cytosol connect from an adjacent cell |
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| An end wall in a sieve tube element, which facilitates the flow of phloem sap in angiosperm sieve tubes |
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| Ground tissue that is internal to the vascular tissue in a stem |
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| Ground tissue that is between the vascular tissue and dermal tissue in a root or eudicot stem |
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| A relatively unspecialized plant cell type that carries out most of the metabolism, synthesizes and stores organic products and develops into a more differentiated cell type |
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| A flexible plant cell type that occurs in strands or cylinders that support young parts of the plant without restraining growth |
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| A rigid, supportive plant cell type usually lacking a protoplast and possessing thick secondary walls strengthened by lignin at maturity |
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| Organism continues to grow as long as it lives |
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| Growth produced by apical meristems, lengthening stems and roots |
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| Growth produced by lateral meristems, thickening the roots and shoots of woody plants |
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| Plant tissue consisting of cells joined into tubes that transport water and nutrients throughout the plant body |
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| A cylinder of meristematic tissue in woody plants that adds layers of secondary vascular tissue |
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| A finger like projection along the flank of a shoot apical meristem, from which a leaf rises |
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| A cone of cells at the tip of a plant root that protects the apical meristem |
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