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ch. 24 vocab
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archegonium | structure that produces eggs |
| antheridium | structure that produces sperm |
| sorus | cluster of sporanism on a fern frond |
| pollen grain | structure that contains the male gametophyte of a seed plant |
| ovule | structure in the ovary of a seed plant that contains an embryo sac and that develops into a seed after fertilazation |
| pollination | transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to the tip of a female reproductive structure of a flower in agiosperms or the ovule in gymnosperms |
| pollen tube | structure that grows from a pollen grain, enters the embryo sac, and allows the male reproductive cells to move to the ovule |
| seed coat | the protective outer covering of a seed |
| cotyledon | embryotic leaf of a seed |
| sepal | in a flower, one of the outermost rings of modified leaves that protect the flower bud |
| petal | one of the ring or rings of the usually brightly colored leaf-shaped parts of a flower |
| stamen | male reproductive structure of a flower that produces pollen and consists of an anther at the tip of a filament |
| anther | in flowering plants, the tip of a stamen which contains the pollen sacs where grains form |
| pistil | female reproductive part of a flower that produces seeds and consits of an ovary, style & stigma |
| ovary | in the female reproductive system of animals, an organ that produces eggs |
| double fertilization | process by which one of the 2 sperm nuclei fuses with the egg nucleaus to produce a diploid zigote and the other nuclei to produce a triploid endosperm |
| vegetative reproduction | type of asexual reproduction in which new plants grow from nonreproductive plant parts |
| plant propagandation | growing new plants from seed or from vegetative parts |
| tissue culture | technique for growing living cells in an artificial meduim |