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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pholem | the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves. |
| xylem | the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem. |
| pollen | a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone |
| seed | a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant. |
| embryo | the young plant that devolps from the zygote or fertilized egg is the embryo |
| cotyledon | an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed. |
| germination | the development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy |