Plants – Botany

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Vascular Plants

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Plants that have tissues organized to conduct food and water throughout their structure. They can produce seed, or not.

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Nonvascular Plants

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Plants that lack special tissue for conducting food and water. They produce no seeds or flowers. Generally very small plants (mosses)

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Angiosperms

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Plants that produce flowers as reproductive organs

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Gymnosperms

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Plant that produce seeds without flowers (Mostly trees)

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Annuals

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Plants that survive only through a single growing seasons

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Perennial

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Plants that continue to grow year after year

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Sepals

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In angiosperms, this encloses the petals before blooming

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Pedicel

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In angiosperms, the short branch of stem that supports the flower

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Pistil

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In angiosperms, the female reproductive structure (includes the stigma, style, ovary, and ovules)

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Stigma

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In angiosperms, the sticky surface at the top of the pistol which traps pollen grains

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Style

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In angiosperms, a slender vase-like structure below the stigma which encloses the ovary

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Ovary

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In angiosperms, a hollow bulb-shaped structure in the lower interior of the pistol. After seeds have formed, this becomes fruit

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Ovules

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In angiosperms, small round cases in the ovaries that contain one or more egg cells

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Stamen

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In angiosperms, the male reproductive structure (includes the anther and filament

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Anther

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In angiosperms, the male reproductive organ that includes four lobes and contains cells that become pollen.

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Simple Fruit

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This fruit develops from a single ripened ovary (Apple, Corn, Olive)

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Compound Fruit

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This fruit develops from many separate ovaries

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Aggregate Fruit

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Fruit where ovaries from a single flower fuse together (Raspberry)

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Multiple Fruit

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Fruit that forms from the fusing of several ovaries of separate flowers during ripening (Strawberry, Pineapple)

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Cotyledon

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Stored food in a seed

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Dicotyledon

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Plants with two cotyledons in the seed (Oaks, Flowers, Vegetables)

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Monocotyledon

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Plants with only one cotyledon in the seed (Grasses, Lilies, Palms)

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Xylem

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Vascular tissue that transports water up from the ground to the branches and leaves

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Phloem

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Vascular tissue that transports food made in the leaves to the rest of the plant

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Tropism

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An involuntary response of an organism to an external stimulus such as light, water, gravity, or nutrients.