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A flowering plant.
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What is an Angiosperm? (p70)
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Ex. Rose, Apple tree, Thrift, et. al.
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A cone-bearing gymnosperm.
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What is a Conifer? (p72)
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Ex. Hemlock, Pine, Redwood, Cedar, et.al.
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An angiosperm that has two seed leaves.
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What is a Dicot? (p71)
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Ex. Butterbean; also called Dicotyledon for two seed leaves at germination.
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A beginning plant; an early stage in the development of an organism.
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What is an Embryo? (p70)
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Ex. A rudementary plant within a seed.
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A seedless vascular plant.
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What is a Fern? (p76)
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Ex. Rabbitsfoot Fern; flowerless, seedless, vascular, plant of Class Felicinae with fronds having split leaflets & spores for reproducing
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A large, feathery leaf of a fern.
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What is a Frond? (p76)
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Spores are held on the underside of this split leaflet.
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A group of living things that include separate species.
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What is a Genus? (p68)
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Scientific name beginning with Capital letter.
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A nonflowering seed plant.
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What is a Gymnosperm? (p72)
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Ex. Any Conifer or cone-bearing tree or shrub.
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Decayed plant and animal matter that is part of the topsoil.
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What is Humus? (p78)
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Ex. Peat from bogs.
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An angiosperm that has one seed leaf.
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What is a Monocot? (p71)
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Ex. Any flowering tree, shrub, or plant.
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A nonvascular plant that has simple parts.
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What is Moss? (p77)
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Small, green plants of class Musci in division Bryophyta.
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A plant that does not have tubelike cells for carrying water or food.
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What is a Nonvascular Plant?
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Ex. Liverworts, and mosses.
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A tiny, root-like thread of a moss plant.
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What is a Rhizoid? (p77)
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How liverworts, mossess, and ferns absorb water from the substratum.
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A plant part containing a beginning plant and stored food.
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What is a Seed? (p70)
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Any plant ovule with an embryo capable of reproducing
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Clusters of reproductive cells on the underside of the frond.
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What are Sori? (p76)
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Reproductive cells of fern spread by wind from under its fronds.
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The reproductive cells on some plants like mosses and liverworts.
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What are Spores? (16)
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Single-celled reproductive organ of ferns, mosses or liverworts.
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A plant that has tubelike cells.
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What is a Vascular Plant? (68)
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Any seed-producing plant or tree.
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A group of plant cells that form tubes through which food and water move.
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What is Vascular Tissue?
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Plant cells which help circulate fluids for plant.
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