Final Exam Vocabulary
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| plants that have the ability to make their own food | Autotroph
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| non-vascular plants | Bryophyte
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| plants that lack the ability to make their own food | Heterotroph
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| vascular plants | Tracheophyte
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| organisms with a network of veins to transport food/water and nutrients around | Vascular
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| scientific process of classifying | Taxonomy
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| when two or more independent organisms live together and each benefit from the other | Symbiosis
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| vascular, flower making plants; means seed container | Angiosperm
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| vascular, non-flowering plants; means uncovered seed | Gymnosperm
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| the sprouting of an embryo out of a seed | Germination
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| a period when the growth and activity of an organism stops | Dormant
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| the transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to the female reproductive structures in plants | Pollination
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| the joining of a sperm cell and egg cell | Fertilization
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| the growth response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus | Tropism
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| a change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react | Stimulus
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| the process plants use to make food for themselves | Photosynthesis
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| the green pigment found in all green plants; needed to conduct photosynthesis | Chlorophyll
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| the process by which water is released from plants into the air | Transpiration
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| is made up of one thick main root growing downward | Taproot system
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| is made up of a series of roots growing in many different directions. This system is usually wider than it is deep. | Fibrous root system
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| stalk of the anther | Filament
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| the swollen base of the pistil | Ovary
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| the colorful part of a flower | Petal
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| sticky top of a flower | Stigma
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| all the female parts grouped together; sometimes called Carpel | Pistil
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| connects the stigma and ovary | Style
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| all the male plant structures of the flower grouped together | Stamen
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| part of the stamen that produces pollen | Anther
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| male reproductive cell of a plant (sperm) | Pollen Grain
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| movement of pollen from the anther of a plant to the pistil of a different plant | Cross pollination
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| movement of pollen from the anther of a plant to the pistil of the same plant | Self pollination
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| a tiny, non-living particle that enters and reproduces inside a living cell | Virus
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| a virus that infects bacteria. Actually means "bacteria eater". | Bacteriophage
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| organism that has been infected by a virus/bacteria and is used as a source of energy | Host
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| organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm to the host | Parasite
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| organism whose cells contain a nucleus | Eukaryote
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| organism whose cells lack a nucleus | Prokaryote
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| the basic unit of structure and function in an organism | Cell
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| a rigid structure that protects the cell | Cell Wall
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| semi-permeable structure that controls which materials pass into and out of the cell | Cell Membrane
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| the region inside the cell membrane containing a gel-like material | Cytoplasm
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| a plant structure in which photosynthesis occurs | Chloroplast
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| dense area of the cell that contains the chemical instructions that direct the cell's activities | Nucleus
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| chemical factory within the cytoplasm where proteins are produced | Ribosomes
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| long whip shaped structure that helps a cell move by spinning in place like a propeller | Flagellum
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| the structure in which the cell components are housed | Capsule
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