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| What are the characteristics of all plants? |
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| multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophs, cell wall made of cellulose |
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| What produces spores asexually? |
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| What produces gametes sexually? |
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| haploid gametophyte plant |
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| What are the two major groups of plants? |
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What do these characteristics describe?
-lack true roots, stems, and leaves
-absorb nutrients through cells because they have no transport system
-tend to be small and live in moist environments |
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| What is another name for nonvascular plants? |
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What do these characteristics describe?
-roots, stems, and leaves
transport material in xylem and phloem
-found in many environments |
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| What is another name for vascular plants? |
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| nonvascular, seedless plants (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) |
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| What conducts water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant |
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| What are vessels that conduct starch and sugar from the leaves to the other parts of the plant |
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| What is a vascular bundle? |
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| What are some examples of seedless vascular plants? |
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| ferns, horseferns, whiskbrooms |
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| using spores located in clusters called sori |
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| What are the leaves a fern called? |
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| What are the characteristics of angiosperms? |
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-flowering plants
-produce seeds enclosed in a fruit |
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| What are the two groups seed bearing vascular plants are grouped into? |
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| gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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| What are the two groups angiosperms are divided into? |
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| What are the characteristics of monocots? |
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-one cotyledon
-parallel veins in leaves
-fibrous roots
-flower parts in threes or fives |
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| What are the characteristics of dicots? |
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-two cotyledons
-netted veins in leaves
-taproot
-flower parts in fours or fives |
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| What are the three basic plant structures? |
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| What are the uses of roots? |
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| anchor plant and absorb water and minerals |
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| What are the two types of roots? |
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| What are the uses for the stem? |
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| support for leaves and reproductive organs and protection for the transport system |
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| What are the uses of leaves? |
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| factories for the plant and site of photosynthesis |
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| What is a waxy covering that protects a leaf? |
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| What is the tiny opening on the bottom of a leaf that allows gases to enter and leave the leaf |
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| What protects the flower and bud? |
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| What is colorful and attracts insects? |
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| What is the male structure of the flower? |
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| What is the female organ of the flower? |
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| What are the two parts of the stamen? |
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| produces pollen through meiosis |
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| What are the three parts of the pistil (female reproductive organ)? |
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| undergoes meiosis to produce ovule (egg) |
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| What is a ripened ovary (zygote (fertilized egg)) |
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| What is the growth of a plant in response to a stimulus (sunlight)? |
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