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ch. 23 vocab
bio 23 vocab
| cuticle | a waxy layer that covers the non-woody above ground parts of most plants |
| stomata | permit plants to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide |
| guard cells | a pain of specialized cells |
| vascular system | a system of well-developed vascular tissues that distribute materials more efficiently |
| non vascular plants | small plants that have no vascular system |
| vascular plants | plants that have a vascular system |
| seed | a structure that contains the embryo of a plant |
| embryo | an early stage in the development of plants and animals |
| seed plants | vascular plants that produce seeds |
| flower | a reproductive structure that produces pollen and seeds |
| phloem | relatively soft-walled cells transport organic nutrients in a kind of tissue |
| xylem | hard-walled cells transport water and mineral nutrients in a kind of tissue |
| shoot | the port of a plant's body that grows mostly upward |
| root | in most plants, the part of the body that grows downward |
| meristems | zones of actively dividing plant cells |
| rhizods | anchor the gametophytes to the surfaces on which they grow |
| rhizomes | horizontal underground stems |
| fronds | most fern sporophytes have a rhizome that is anchored by roots and leaves |
| cone | cluster of non green spore-beaing leaves form a structure |
| gymnosperms | are seed plants whose seeds do not develop within a sealed container |
| angiosperms | flowering plants |
| fruit | seeds that develop encloses within a specialized structure |
| endosperm | seeds of angiosperms have a supply of stored food |
| monocots | flowering plants that produce seeds with on seed leaf |
| dicots | flowering plants that produce seeds with two seed leaf |
| vegetative part | nonreproductive part of a plant |
| cereals | grassed that are grown as food for humans and livestock |
| grains | dry fruit |