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| alternation of generations |
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| haploid and diploid generations take turns in producing each other |
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| diploid plant that produces haploid spres by meiosis |
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| order of modified leaves from outside to inside |
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| sepals petals stamens carpels |
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| have sepals petals stamens carpels |
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| lack on or more of the four modiefied leaves |
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| stamen and carpel are on same plant |
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| stamens and carpels on different plants |
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| form when microsporocytes go through meiosis. produces fenerative cell and tube cell. |
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| prodeced when megasporocute goes through meiosis. only one of the four produced survives. |
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| megaspore mass with eight haploid nuclei. the female gametophyte |
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| pollen goes on the stigma of the carpel |
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| self incompatible flowers |
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| pollen grain from an anther lands on stigma of a flower on the same plant, biochemical block prevents fertilization |
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union of two sperm cells with different cell of the embryo sac. one sperm fertilizes egg to form zygote. other sperm combines with two poalr nuclei to form a triploid nucleus in the center of hte large central cell fo the embryo sac. |
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| encloses embryo and food supply |
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| embryonic axis below the pt where cotyledons are attached |
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| embryonic axis above the cotyledons |
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specialized cotyledon in monocot seed. absorbs nutrients during fertilization |
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sheath enclosing grass embryo covers root and coleoptile |
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| derived form single ovary |
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results of singe flower that has several carpels. ex: blackberry |
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developes form an inflorescence group of flowers tightly clustered together ex: pineapple |
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| absorption of water due to low water potentail of dry seed |
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seperation fo parent plant into parts that reform whole plants most common mode of vegetative reproduction |
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| produce seeds without fertilized flowers |
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| undifferentated dividing cells at the cut end of a shoot |
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| plant tha provides the rood system |
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| cultivation of of large areas of land with a single plant |
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| being coupled with tissue culture nethods to actually invert new plant varieties that can be cloned |
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| aquisition of cell's specific structure |
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| ring of microtubles in the cell cortex |
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| development of specific structures in specific locations |
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| signals that indicate each cell's location within an embryonic structure |
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| helps with the transition from vegetative growht to flowering |
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