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TLCbiology
Exploring Creation With Biology /mod. 14
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| - The study of plants. | Botany |
| - Plants that grow year after year. | Perennial plants |
| - Plants that live for only one year. | Annual plants |
| - The parts of a plant (such as flowers, fruits, and seeds) that are involved in reproduction. | Reproductive plant organs |
| - Cells that have not specialized in any particular function. | Undifferentiated cells |
| - Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves. | Xylem |
| - Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant. | Phloem |
| - The arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant. | Leaf mosaic |
| - The characteristics of the leaf edge. | Leaf margin |
| - A plant that loses its leaves for winter. | Deciduous plant |
| - The process of cutting away a ring of inner and outer bark all the way around a tree trunk. | Girdling |
| - A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form. | Alternation of generations |
| - In alternation of generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of the lifecycle. | Dominant generation |
| - A fine dust that contain the sperm of seedproducing plant. | Pollen |
| - A "seed leaf" which develops as a part of the seed. It provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant. | Cotyledon |
| - Plants that live for two years. | Biennial plants |
| - Parts of a plant (such as stems, roots, and leaves) that are not involved in reproduction. | Vegetative organs |