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| flowering plant (vessel seed) |
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| A plant having only one cotyledon (single cup) |
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| Plants with two cotyledons (two cups) |
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| The principal water-conducting tissue and the chief supporting system of higher plants |
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| The principal food-conducting tissue in vascular plants |
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| Main root of a primary-root system. It grows vertically downward |
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| "A root system made up of many threadlike members of more or less equal length," |
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| A thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell of a plant root that absorbs water and minerals from the soil |
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| Inhibition of the growth of lateral buds by the terminal bud of a plant shoot |
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| The stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem |
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| The broad flat part of a leaf |
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| A ground tissue chiefly concerned with the manufacture and storage of food |
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| "A primary, or early differentiated, supporting tissue of young shoot parts appearing while these parts are still elongating" |
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| Single cells or aggregates of cells whose principal function is thought to be mechanical support of plants or plant parts |
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| "A series of cells joined end to end, forming a tube through which nutrients are conducted in flowering plants and brown algae" |
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| "In plants, region of cells capable of division and growth" |
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| A thimble-shaped mass of cells that covers and protects the root tip |
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| the zone in which cells divide |
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| the area when cells can become specialized to perform a certain function |
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| the zone where plant matures |
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| the central part of the root or stem containing the vascular tissue |
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| "he tissue of unspecialized cells lying between the epidermis (surface cells) and the vascular, or conducting, tissues of stems and roots" |
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| The innermost layer of the cortex that forms a sheath around the vascular tissue of roots and some stems |
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| A strandlike part of the plant vascular system containing xylem and phloem |
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| "Loss of water from a plant, mainly through the stomata" |
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| pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass |
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| the paired epidermal cells that control the opening and closing of a stoma in plant tissue |
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| "The photosynthetic tissue of a leaf, located between the upper and lower epidermis" |
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| A lateral meristem that produces secondary xylem to the inside and secondary phloem to the outside |
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| the inner side of the plasma membrane in which water (and low molecular solutes) can freely diffuse |
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| the free diffusional space outside the plasma membrane |
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| "a band of wall material in the radial and transverse walls of the endodermis, which is chemically different from the rest of the wall" |
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| The rearrangement of genetic material within the same chromosome |
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| the source of where sugar comes from (sucrose) |
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