Chapter 3 Vocab Words
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| Cuticle | Waxy, protective layer that covers the stems, leaves, and flowers of many plants and helps prevent water loss.
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| Cellulose | Chemical compound made out of sugar; forms tangled fibers in the cell walls of many plants and provides structures and support.
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| Vascular Plants | Plant with tubelike structures that move minerals, water, and other substances throughout the plant.
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| Nonvascular Plants | Plant that absorbs water and other substances directly through its cell walls instead of through tubelike structures.
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| Rhizoids | Threadlike structures that anchor nonvascular plants to the ground.
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| Pioneer Species | First organisms to grow in new or disturbed areas; break down rock and build up decaying plant materical so that other plants can grow.
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| Stomata | Tiny openings in a plant's epidermis through which carbon dioxide, water vapor, and oxygen enter and exit.
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| Guard Cells | Pairs of cells that surround stomata and control and closing.
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| Xylem | Vascular tissue that forms hollow vessels that ranspor substances, other than sugar, throughout a plant.
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| Phloem | VAscular tissue that forms tubes that transport dissolved sugar throughout a plant.
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| Cambium | Vascular Tissue that produces xylem and phloem cells as a plant grows.
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| Gymnosperms | Vascular plants that do not flower, generally have needlelike or scalelike leaves, and produce seeds that are not protected by fruit; conifers, cycads, ginkgoes, and gnetophytes
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| Angiosperm | Flowering vascular plants that produce fruits containing one or more seeds; monocots and dicots.
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| Monocots | Angiosperm with one cotyledon inside its seed flower parts in multiples of three, and vascular tissues in bundles scattered throughout the stem.
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| Dicots | Angiosperm with two cotyledons inside its seed, flower parts in multiples of four or five, and vascular bundles in rings.
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