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| Part of the branch where the flower forms. |
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| The main transportation of water and nutrients into the plant. |
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| Transports water and nutrients around the plant. |
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| Flowering plants that have 1 embryonic seed leaf. Petals are usually in groups of 3's, have parallel veins, scattered vascular tissue, fibrous root system and a pollen grain with one opening. |
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| Flowering plants that have 2 embryonic seed leaves. Petals are usually in groups of 4's or 5's, have netlike veins, arranged vascular tissue, taproot system, and a pollen grain with multiple openings. |
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| A plant cell that carries out most of the metabolism, synthesizes and stores products, and developes into a more differentiated cell type. |
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| The layer of modified tissue consisting of cells that are thickened at the angles and usually elongated. |
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| Supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells. Dies at maturity. |
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| Vein in vascular plants that transports water and other nutrients. |
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| Vein in vascular plants that transports sugars. |
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| The outer protective layers of protection of plants. |
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| Any tissue in a plant that is not Dermal or Vascular. |
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| The transport system of a plant containing 2 veins: the Xylem and the Phloem. |
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| Tissue in the tips of roots and buds of shoots that supply cells for the plant to grow in length. |
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| A meristem that thickens the roots and shoots of woody plants. |
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| Growth produced by Apical Meristems, lenghtening the roots and stems. |
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| Growth produced by Lateral Meristems, thickening the roots and stems of woody plants. |
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| Zone of primary growth in roots consisting of the root Apical Meristem and its derivatives. This is where new root cells are produced. |
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| Zone of primary growth in roots where new cells elongate. |
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| Zone of primary growth in roots where cells complete their differentiation and become fully mature. |
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| Organs in vascular plants that anchors the plant and absorbs nutrients and and water from the soil. |
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| Waxy covering on the outside of leaves and stems that is water-tight to keep in water. |
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| The dermal tissue system of non-woody plants, usually consisting of an outer layer of tightly packed cells. |
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| One or more layers of elongated photosynthetic cells on the upper part of the leaf. |
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| Loosely aranged photosynthetic cells located just beneath the palisade layer of the leaf. |
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| Loosely aranged photosynthetic cells located just beneath the palisade layer of the leaf. |
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| The openings in the outer layer of a leaf that allow materials to move inside and outside of the plant. |
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| The cells that regulate what comes and goes throught the stomata of the plant. |
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| A single carpel of a group of fused carpels. |
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| The sticky part of a flower's carpel that traps pollen. |
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| Stalk of the flower's carpel with the ovary at the base and the stigma at the top. |
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| Portion of the carpel in which the egg-containing ovules develope. |
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| Pollen procing organ of a flower. Contains the anther and the filament. |
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| The terminal pollen sack of the stamen, where pollen grains with male gametes form. |
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| A modified leaf of a flowering plant. Often colorful to advertise it to pollenators. |
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| A modified leaf in flowering plants that helps to enclose and protect a flower bud before it opens. |
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| Alteration of Generations |
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| A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form, the sporophyte, and a multicellular haploid form, the gametophyte. |
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| The diploid product of the union of haploid gametes in conception. It is a fertilized egg. |
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| A seed leaf of an angiosperm embryo. Some species have one, some have two. (Monocots and Eudicots) |
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| Natural plant hormones that have a variety of effects, including cell elongation, root formation, secondary growth, and fruit growth. |
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| Hormones that stimulate the growth of stems and leaves, trigger the germination of seeds, and stimulate fruit development with auxins. |
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| Affects the root and shoot tips of plants. Shoot tips- promotes growth in the shoot area. Root tips- high concentrations inhibit growth and small amounts promote growth. |
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| Hormones that inhibit aging and act in concert with auxin to stimulate cell division, influence the pathway of differentiation, and control apical dominace. |
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| Plant hormone that affects responses to mechanical stress, programmed cell death, leaf abscission, and fruit ripening. |
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| Growth response that results in cuvature of a whole plants organs toward or away from a stimuli owing to differential rates of cell elongation. |
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| Movements that are in response to a stimulus, but independent of the direction of the stimulus. Reversible and do not involve growth. Involve change in internal pressure of some cells. |
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| Hormone that slows down growth. Promotes seed dormancy and facilitates drought tolerance. |
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| Opening and closing of flowers in response to temperature changes. |
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| Response of a plant to changes in the lenght of day or night. Controls flowering and leaf abscission. |
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