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Agriculture
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Growing plants & raising animals for human use.
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Legumes
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Members of the pea family & bear protein rich seeds in pods.
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Fertilizers
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Supply plants with essential mineral nutrients like nitrogen & phosphorus.
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Pesticides
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Chemicals that kill undesirable organisms that eat crops, such as some insects.
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Spore
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A haploid reproductive cell surrounded by a hard outer wall.
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Seed
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An embryo surrounded by a protective coat.
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Vascular tissue
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Type of tissue that transport water & dissolved substances from one port of the plant to another.
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Xylem
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Carries water & inorganic nutrients in direction, from the roots to the stems & leaves.
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Phloem
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Carries organic compounds, such as carbohydrates, & some inorganic nutrients in any direction, depending on the plant's needs.
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Nonvascular plants
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Have neither true vascular tissue nor true roots, stems, or leaves.
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Gymnosperms
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Produce seeds that are not enclosed in fruits.
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Angiosperms
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Produce seeds within a protective fruit.
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Cone
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A reproductive structure composed of hard scales.
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Deciduous
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Trees that lose their leaves at the end of the growing season.
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Dicots
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Have 2 cotyledon in their embryo
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Meristems
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Regions where cells contunuously divide.
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Root hairs
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Extensions of epidermal cells.
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Wood
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Secondary xylem.
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Annual Ring
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A yearly growth ring in a woody plant.
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Transpiration
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Water loss in plants through leaf stomata.
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