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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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