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includes the main root & any & all of its lateral (side) branches
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root system
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aboveground portion of a plan consisting of the stem, leaves, and flowers.
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shoot system
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usually the upright, vertical portion of a plant that transports substances to & from the leaves
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stem
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root like underground stem
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rhizomes
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lateral appendage of a stem, highly variable in structure, often containing cells that carry out photosynthesis
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leaves
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land plant that sheds leaves over a long period, so some leaves are always present
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evergreens
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land plant that sheds its leaves annually
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deciduous
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flowering plant group; members have one embryonic leaf (cotyledons), parallel-veined leaves, scattered vascular bundles, flower parts in theee or multiples of three, and other characteristics
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monocots
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flowering plant group; members have 2 embryonic leaves, net-veined, vascular bundles in a ring, flower parts in four or fives and their multiples, and other characteristics
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eudicots
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inner, thicker layer of a leaf consisting of palisade and spongy mesophyll; the site of most of photosynthesis
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mesophyll
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undifferentiated embryonic tissue in the active growth regions of plants
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meristem
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in vascular land plants, masses of cells in the root and shoot that reproduce and elongate as primary growth occurs
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apical meristem
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