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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| biotic | pertaining to life |
| abiotic | of or characterized by the absence of life or living organisms |
| angiosperms | a plant having its seeds enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant |
| monocots | one of the major groups flowering plants are divided into: has 1 embryo |
| dicots | other group: has 2 embrioes |
| flowering plant | a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm |
| petals | one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower |
| peduncle | a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower |
| sepals | one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower |
| stamen | the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther |
| anther | the pollen-bearing part of a stamen |
| ovules | the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed |
| ovary | the female gonad or reproductive gland, in which the ova and the hormones that regulate female secondary sex characteristics develop |
| pistil | the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma |
| stigma | the part of a pistil that receives the pollen |
| filament | the stalklike portion of a stamen, supporting the anther |
| style | a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display |
| reproduction | the act or process of reproducing |
| fertilization | an act, process, or instance of fertilizing |
| pollination | the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma |
| sterile | noting a plant in which reproductive structures fail to develop |
| pollen | the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses |
| embryo | the rudimentary plant usually contained in the seed |
| dormancy | the state of being dormant |
| germination | to develop into a plant or individual, as a seed, spore, or bulb |
| pollinators | anything that coverts pollen to another plant |