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| Botany | The study of plants |
| botane | A Greek word meaning "plant" |
| Biology | The study of living things |
| Biologist | People who study living things |
| Classification | The process of placing things into groups |
| Kingdom | The separation of living things into different groups |
| Taxonomy | The process of dividing up plants into different groups and naming each group |
| Plantae | The Kingdom Classification of all plants on earth |
| Phylum | The "Kingdom Plantae" divided into smaller groups |
| Class | The "Phylum" group divided into smaller groups |
| Order | The "Class" group divided into smaller groups |
| Family | The "Order " group divided into smaller groups |
| Genus | The "Family" group divided into smaller groups |
| Species | The smallest classification of a plant |
| Binomial Nomenclature | Assigning two names to plants using the Latin Language |
| Vascular Plants | Plants with tubes that carry liquid inside |
| Xylem | Tubes that run up a plant carrying chemicals and water |
| Phloem | Tubes that flow down a plant through other tubes, carrying sugar and chemicals |
| Midrib | Thickest "vein" running up the middle of the leaf--carries water from the stem to the smaller veins in the leaf |
| Nonvascular Plants | Plants that do not have tubes inside them |
| Bryophyta | Moss plants |
| Moss | A Nonvascular Plant--They are not true leaves and stems because they do not have tubes inside of them. |
| Lichens | Plant-like clumps that grow on rocks, look like nonvascular plants, but aren't. They're actually two living things in one! |
| Pod | The vessel or 'home' that holds the seeds |
| Angiosperms | "Seed container" |
| Anthophyta | Phylum for "flower-making" plants |
| Gymnosperms | "Uncovered seed" |
| Coniferophyta | Phylum for "cone-bearing" plants |
| Seedless Vascular Plants | Plants with tubes inside of them that do not make seeds, but make spores |
| Pterophyta | "Wing plant" |
| Sporangia | "Spore container" |
| Veins & Arteries | Tubes in the human body that carry fluid and are known as "vascular tissue" |
| Phyla | More than one "Phylum" |
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