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20 Cards in this Set
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Define Gymnosperm
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Non flowering plants that produce seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary
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Define Angiosperm
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Produce flowers and have enclosed seeds like the seeds of an apple
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Define phylum Coniferophyta
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Type of pine cone, usually numerous, small, and short lived
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Define Pollen
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Prduced by pollen cones, contains the male reproductive gametes
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Define Seed Cones
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Usually found on other brances of same tree, female reproductive parts.
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Define Phylum Anthophyta
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Often called angiosperms, dominant vegetation on earth today
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Define Fruit
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A Mature ovary
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Define Monocots
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One class of angiosperm, actual name is Monocotyledoneae
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Define Dicots
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Another class of angiosperm, actual name is Dicotyledoneae
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Define Cotyledon
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Contaions stored food to nourish the embryonic plant until it's able to make it's own food.
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Xylem
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Carries water and dissolved minerals within a plant
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Tracheids
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Long thick walled cells
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Vessel Cell
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another xylem cell type
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Phloem
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Cell walls of the other vascular tissue, carries water and dissolved foods
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Sieve Tube Cells
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The mature phloem is composed of living cells
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COmpanion cells
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Special cell that performs respiration, protein syntheses, and other metabolic functions for the sieve tube cells
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Meristematic Tissue
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responcible for the ongoing growth of the plant, does mitosis
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Parenchyma
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Important in many metabolic processes of the plant and in storage of water and starch
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Collenchyma
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Provides structural support for the plant
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Sclerenchyma
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the framework for the plant
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