Plants 13 &14
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nicolehboynton on April 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 botany | study of plants |
| seeds | structures that contain young plant and store food in a seed coat |
| annual | sprout, grow, flower and produce seeds all in one season. Usually die over winter |
| perennial | grow year after year |
| rhizoids | root-like but no vascualr tissue, anchor mosses and draw up water |
| antheridia | male part of the gametophyte, make sperm |
| archegonia | female part of gemtopphyte; conatin ovum |
| frond | fern leaf |
| sori | spore producing, sporangia on bottom of frond |
| preothallus | heart shaped gametophyte generation of ferns, has rhizoids underneath and archegonia and antheridia on top |
| fiddlehead | coiled younhg fern leaf |
| fruit | mature ovary, enclose seeds |
| cotyledon | contains stored food that noursihes embyonic plant |
| Phylumn Bryophyta | non-vascualr, no seeds, only spores; mosses |
| Phylum Pteridophyta | vascualr, no seeds, only spores; ferns |
| Phylum Coniferophyta | vascualr, gymnosperms; cone bearing plants (pine, fir, spruce, yew, redwood, cypress, cedar |
| gymnosperms | naked seeds |
| Phylum Anthophyta | vascualr, angiosperms, flowers; most vegetation on earth, maples, oaks, flowers, crops, anythingwith flowers or blossoms |
| Angiosperms | seeds in a vessel |
| monocots | 1 cotelydon, parallel venation, fibrous roots, scattered vascular bundles, petals in 3's or 6's |
| dicots | 2 cotyledons, netted venation, tap roots, vascular bundles in a ring, petals in pairs 5's and 4's |
| pistil | stigma, style, and ovary |
| stamen | anther and filament |
| ... | part of the root |
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