Chapter 1 Review Definitions

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Angiosperm	The flowering seed plants.
Bilateral Symmetry	(Irregular)-Similar halves can be produced only if the flower is cut lengthwise.
Radial Symmetry	(Regular Flower)-If cut across the middle in any direction, both halves will be exactly alike
Biology	The study of living things.
Blade	The leaves of all plants; the green portion.
Botany	The study of plants
Cereals	Any grass that produces grain for food.
Deciduous
Denitrifying Bacteria	They convert unused nitrates back into nitrogen to complete the nitrogen cycle.
Dicotyledon	A plant whose seeds have two seed leaves (cotyledons); exhibits palmate venation in leaves, flower parts in groups of four or five, and a stem structure with vascular bundles arranged in a circle.
Monocotyledon	A plant whose seeds have only one seed leaf (monocotyledon); exhibits parallel venation of leaves, flower parts in groups of three, and a stem structure with scattered vascular bundles.
Forage Grasses	Grasses that are used for livestock grazing.
Turf Grasses	Grasses that are used as coverings for lawns, athletic fields, and golf courses, and playgrounds.
Graminoid	Grasses and grasslike plants; botanist refer to them by this name.
Habitat	Regions where particular organisms normally live.
Hardwood	The wood from a broad-leaved tree rather than from conifers.
Herbaceous Plant	Non-woody plants. To a botanist, an herb is any plant whose stem remains relatively soft.
Legume	All members of the pea family can technically be referred to as this.
Margin	The edge of a leaf's blade.
Midrib	Many types of plants that have a large vein running down the center of the blade.
Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria	Nitrogen that has been combined into special compounds of nitrogen and oxygen.
Organism	An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Petiole	The stalk that joins a leaf to a stem; leafstalk.
Sap	The liquid in the roots, stems, and leaves of plants.
Sedge	Any member of a certain family of grasslike plants, including bulrushes and papyri.
Sheath	The leaf base that envelops the stem of a grass plant
Stolon	A runner or creeping stem of a plant.
Vegetative Reproduction	Plant reproduction without seeds.
Vine	Any plant with a long, thin stem that grows along the ground or has tendrils that twine around a wall or other support.
Woody Plants	Plants that live several years and develop a large amount of wood. (Think trees and shrubs.)
Zoology	The study of animals.