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ch 25 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| dermal tissue | the outer covering of a plant |
| ground tissue | a type of plant tissue other than vascular tissue that makes up much of the inside of a plant |
| epidermis | the ater surface layer of cells of a plant or animals |
| cork | the outer layer of bark of any woody plant |
| vessel | in plants, a tubelike structre in the xylem that is comosed of connected cells that conduct water and mineral nutrients; in animals,a tube or duct that carries blood or another buliding fluid. |
| sieve tube | in the phloe, of a flowering plant, a conducting tube, thatis made up of a series of sieve tube members stacked end to end |
| cortex | in plants,the primary tissue located in the epidermis; in animals, the outermost portion of a an organ |
| root hair | an extension of the epidermis of a root that inreade the root's surface area for abosorption |
| root cap | the protective layer of cells that covers the tip of a root |
| herbaceous plant | a plant that is soft and green instead of woody |
| vascular bundle | in a plant,a strand of conducting tissue that contains both xylem and phloem |
| pith | the female reproductive part of a flower that produces seeds and consists of an ovary style, and stigma |
| heartwood | the nonconducting older wood in the center of a tree trunk |
| sap wood | the tissue of the secondary xylem that is distributed around the outside of a tree trunk and is active in transporting |
| petiole | the stalk that attaches a leaf to the stem of a plant |
| mesophyll | in leaves the tissue between epidermal layers, where photosynthesis occurs |
| transpiration | the process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata; also the release of water vapor into the air by after organisms. |
| source | a plant of a plant that makes sugars and other organic compounds and from which these compounds are transportd to other parts of the plant |
| sink | any place where a plant stores or uses organic nutrients, such as or stiarches. |
| translocation | the movement of a segment of dna from one chromosome together: which results in a change in the postive of the segment;also the movement of souble nutrients from one part of a plant to another |