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Biology chapter 21
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vascular Plant | Plant with vascular tissues adapted to land environments; most widely distributed type of plant on earth |
| Nonvascular plant | plant that lacks vascular tissues, moves substances slowly from cell to cell by osmosis and diffusion, and grows only in a damp environment |
| seed | plant structure that contains an embryo, contains nutrients for the embryo, and is covered with a protective coat |
| stomata | openings in the outer cell layer of leaves and some stems that enable the exchange of gases |
| thallose | liverwort with a fleshy, lobed body shape |
| epiphyte | a plant that lives anchored to an object or another plant |
| rhizome | ferns thick underground stem that functions as a food storage organ |
| sorus | fern structure formed by clusters of sporangia, usually on the underside of a frond |
| sporangium | sac or case in which fungal spores are produced |
| strobilus | compact cluster of spore-bearing structures in some seedless vascular plant sporophytes |
| annual | plant that completes its life span in one growing season or less |
| biennial | plant with a two year life span |
| perennial | plant that can live for several years |
| cone | feature that contains male or female reproductive structures of cycads and other gymnosperms |
| cotyledon | seed structure that stores food or helps absorb food for the sporophyte of vascular seed plants |
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