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Apologia Botany
Chapter 1 Vocabulary -- Exploring Creation with Botany
Question | Answer |
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Botany | The study of plants |
Biology | The study of living things |
Astrobiologist | Astronauts who study living things |
Taxonomy | The business of dividing plants up into different groups and naming each group |
Kingdoms | Groups of living things |
Plantae | The plant kingdom |
Phylum | Smaller group than a kingdom |
Classification | The process of placing things into groups |
Binomial Nomenclature | Assigning two names |
Vascular plant | A plant that has tubes to carry liquid inside the plant |
Xylem | Tubes that carry water and chemicals up into the plant |
Phloem | Tubes that flow down the plant and carry sugar and other chemicals |
Midrib | The thick vein in the middle of the leaf that carries water through the leaf |
Pod | An outer shell that is the vessel that holds the seed |
Nonvascular plant | Does not have tubes to carry liquid |
Angiosperm | Seed container |
Gymnosperm | Uncovered seed |
Anthophyta | Flower-making plants |
Coniferophyta | Cone-bearing plant |
Pterophyta | Wing-plant |
Sporangia | Spore container |
Bryophyta | Moss-plant |
Lichen | Fungus + algae = lichen |