| Term | Definition |
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| root hair | any of the thread like projections from a plant absorbs water and dissolved minerals from the soil |
| root cap | a thin covering made up of cells that protect the root tip of a plant as it grows in the soil |
| cortex | the layer of tissue just inside the epidermis of a plants, roots or stems |
| rhizoid | one of the hair like fibers that anchor a moss to the soil and take that water from the soil |
| cambium | the layer in plants that searates the xylem from the phloem |
| epirdermis | an outer most layer of such plant parts as roots and leaves |
| spore | cells in seedless plants that grow into new organisms |
| frond | the leaf of a fern |
| rhizome | the underground stem of a fern |
| angiosperm | a seed plant that produces flowers |
| gymnosperm | a seed plant that does not produce flowers |
| xylem | the through which water and minerals move up through a plant |
| embryo | the immature plant inside a plant |
| fruit | the ripened ovary of a flowering seed plant |
| long day plant | a plant that blooms when there is much more daylight that darkness |
| tropism | a growth response of a plant toward or laway from a stimulus |
| monocot | an angosperm with one cotyledon in each seed |
| dicot | an angiosperm with two cttyledon in each seed |
| seed coat | an outer covering of a seed |
| seed | an undeveloped plant with stored food sealed in a protective covering |
| photosythesis | the food making proces in green plants that uses sunlight |
| phloem | the tissue through which food from the leaves moves down through the rest of a plant |
| chorophyll | a green chemical in plant cells that allow plants to use sun energy for making food |
| cotyedon | a tiny leaf like structure also called a seed leaf inside the seed of an angiosperm |
| ferilization | the joining of a sperm cell with an egg to make one new cell, a fertilzed egg |
| asexual reproduction | the production of a new organism from only one cell |
| respiration | the release of energy in plants and animals from food |
| transpiration | the loss of water through the plant's leaves which draws water up through the plant to replace |
| sexual reproduction | the production of a new organism from a female sex cell and a male sex cell |
| pollination | the transfer of a pollen grain to the egg producing part of a plant |
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