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seedless plants, angiosperms, gymnosperms

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carolla   whorl of petals in a flower  
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calyx   lowermost whorl of modified leaves, sepals  
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sporophyte   a multicellular, spore-producing life phase of an organism  
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pedicel   individual flower stalk  
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gametophyte   the gamete-producing body of a plant or an alga;usually haploid  
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fruit   structure that develops from the ovary and sometimes adjacent flower parts after pollination and fertilization is achieved  
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pome   fleshy fruit where flesh derives from a large receptacle (apples, pears)  
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legume   plants that are members of the pea or bean family  
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achene   type of simple indehiscent fruit containing a single seed attatched to the fruit wall at a single point  
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samara   simple indehiscent dry fruit containing a single seed and wings  
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nut   a type of simple indehiscent dry fruit fruit was is stony and derived from multiple carpels  
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megasporophyll   leaf like structure that bears the megasporangium  
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cotyledon   the embryonic seed leaves in the flowering plants that contain the nutritive tissue derived from the endosperm  
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endosperm   triploid nutritive tissue formed as one result of double fertilization in angiosperms  
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microspore   tiny spores whose walls enclose male gametophytes  
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sporophyll   a spore bearing leaf  
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achegonia   vase shaped gamete in seedless vascular plants in which an egg is produced within a sterile jacket layer of cells  
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sporangium   structure which spores are produced  
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nucellus   female sporangium within an ovule megasporangium in seed plants  
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progymnosperms   a group of extinct plants known only from fossils that possessed wood similar to that of modern gymnosperms, but lacked seeds  
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gymnosperm   group of embryophytes that have seeds not enclosed in fruits  
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pteridophyte   non-seed vascular plants; when leaves are present they have branching vascular systems (ferns)  
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bryophyte   mosses, liverworts and hornworts non-vascular embryophytes  
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gemmae   a small piece of the gametophyte body that can develop into a new plant a form of asexual reproduction  
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sepal   the outermost whorl of floral parts which are leaf-like and usually green  
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spore   a reproductive cell that is capable of growing into a new organism without fusing with another cell  
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stigma   the area of the pistil that receives pollen grains  
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style   in the flowers pistil; the style is the column of tissue between the stigma and the ovary through which the pollen tubes grow  
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ovary   broad,round lower portion of the carpel in flowering plants, where the ovules are located  
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carpel   a folded and fused leaf-life structure that contains ovules  
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mitosis   a form of nuclear division in which a set of chromosome copies resulting from DNA replication are distributed to progeny cells  
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peristome   the upper part of the moss capsule that is specialized to discharge spores  
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meiosis   the two successive nuclear divisions that reduce the number of chromosomes from diploid to haploid, producing haploid spores  
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capsule   a simple dry dehiscent fruit consisting of two or more carpels that may split open in a variety of ways  
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carpellate   flowers that lack stamens  
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staminate   flowers that lack carpels  
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generative cell   a cell found in pollen tubes gymnosperms= gives rise to body cell and stalk cell angiosperms= gives rise directly to two male gametes and generative nuclei  
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peduncle   stalk that bears a flower of a cluster of flowers  
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synergid   two haploid nuclei at the micropylar end of the embryo that dont participate in fertilization  
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antipodals   haploid cells usually three in number found in the embryo sac at opposite ends of the micropyle  
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pteridosperms   extinct order of gymnosperms known from fossils, had fern-like fronds and showed thickening of stems and seed formations  
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calyptra   hood over sporophyte in mosses and liverworts; developed from wall of archegonium  
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operculum   membranous cap covering the peristome in undehisced capsule of sporophytes  
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perfect flower   term for a flower that has both stamens and carpels  
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imperfect flower   term for a flower that has either carpels or stamens  
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berry   fleshy fruit with one to several carpels in which the flesh is soft throughout the fruit  
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drupe   fleshy fruit in which inner layer of the fruit forms a hard stony pit tightly bound to the seed  
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multiple fruit   fruits formed when the fruitlets made by an individual flower in an inflorescence fuse into a single large fruit (pineapple)  
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aggregate fruit   fruits formed from a single flower with multiple pistils in which each pistil develops into a fruitlet (raspberries)  
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irregular flower   show bilateral symmetry  
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double fertilization   unique characteristic of flowering plants in which two sperm nuclei fuse with separate nuclei to produce a diploid zygote and a triploid endosperm  
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regular flower   show radial symmetry  
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microsporangia   sporangium that give rise to microspores  
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megasporangia   sporangium that produce megaspores  
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indusium   flap of tissue covering the sorus  
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megaspore   large haploid spore that gives rise to the female gametophyte  
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microsporocyte   diploid cells in the pollen sacs that divide by meiosis to produce four haploid microspores  
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megasporocyte   cell that undergoes meiosis to produce megaspores in heterosporous plants  
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megaphyll   a leaf having a branched system of veins (euphyll)  
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microphyll   small leaves with only one vein found in lycophytes (lycophylls)  
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lycophyll   leaves having a single unbranched vein that does not leave a gap in the stems vascular system  
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euphyll   leaves having a branched vascular system that leaves a gap in the stems vascular system  
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polar nuclei   the two nuclei that lie in the center of the female gametophyte or embryo sac. After fertilization with a sperm nucleus the 3 nuclei give rise to the triploid endosperm tissue  
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microsporophyll   the leaf-like structure that bears one or more microsporangia  
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monotcots   flower parts in multiples of three leaf venation parallel vascular bundles scattered one pore or furrow one cotyledon  
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dicots   flower parts in multiples of four or five leaf venation netlike vascular bundles in a ring three pores or furrows two cotyledons  
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sporopollenin   retains water and microbial resistance  
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lignin   stregthens and waterproofs cell walls  
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cutin   on plant surfaces; microbial resistance, UV radiation  
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