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chlorophyll
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Green chemical found in plant cells that allows plants to make their own food.
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vacuole
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Storage space found in plant and animal cells.
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chloroplast
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Part of plant cell that contains chlorophyll.
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nucleus
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Cell control center that directs everything a cell does.
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cell membrane
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Part around the cell that holds the cell together.
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cell wall
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Rigid structure surrounding the plant cell. (Not found in the animal cell.)
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vascular
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Composed of or containing vessels (or tubes) like veins in plants such as trees and flowering plants.
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nonvascular
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Plants that don't have vessels or tubes -such as mosses and other simple plants.
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vascular and nonvascular
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The two groups that all plants fall into.
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fungi (plural of fungus)
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One celled or many celled that absorbs (takes in) food from decaying dead organisms and wastes in its environment. Doesn't make its own food.
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bacteria
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Tiniest living single celled thing. Doesn't have a nucleus and must be seen with a microscope.
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protists
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Usually lives in water but some live on land. Some are single cells but not all. Dark, dense stucture seen inside the cell is the nucleus.
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xylem
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Tissue that water and minerals flow up through in a plant.
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root hairs
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Threadlike parts of cells on the surface of a root that bring in water and minerals from the soil.
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taproots
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One large root with a few hairy branching roots. Like a carrot or beet.
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fibrous roots
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Made up of only thin hairy branching roots. Like grass.
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transpiration
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When water evaporates from the leaves, and more water moves up through the plant to replace lost water.
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photosynthesis
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The food-making process of the plant. Sunlight strikes the leaf-((Chloroplasts in plants act like tiny chemical factories) Water and carbon dioxide from the air combine to make sugar and oxygen.
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