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Plant Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chlorophyll | A green pigment responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. |
| Dicot | A flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons. They typically have broad and stalked leaves with netlkike veins. |
| Vein | Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body. |
| Cuticle | A protective, waxy or hard layercovering the epidermis of a plant. |
| Root | The part of a plant that attaches it to the ground or to support conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant. |
| Pollen | A fine, yellow powdery substance consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of the flower or from the male cone. Contains a gamete that can pollinate the female part of the flower. |
| Xylem | Tha vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the wood like element in the stem. |
| Monocot | A flowering plant that contains one cotlyedon. Typically have elongated stalkess leaves with parallel veins. |
| Pollination | The transfer of pollem to the stigma to allow plant fertilization. |
| Chloroplast | A plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis occurs. |
| Germination | The development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy. |
| Seed Coat | The protective outer coat of a seed. |
| Seed | The flowering plant's unit of reproduction that is capable of growing into a new plant. |
| Confiners | A tree that bears cones and evergreen needlelike or scalelike leaves. Conifers are important to the source of softwood. |
| Leaf | A flatened structure of higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that is attached to a stem directly. |
| Sprout | To put forth or shoot. |
| Spore | A small unicellular reproductive unit capable of giving rise to new individuals with out sexual fission. |
| Phloem | The vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves. |
| Taproot | A straight tapering root growering vertically down froming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring. |
| Cotyledon | An embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants. |
| Sap | The fluid, chiefly water dissolved sugars and mineral salts, that circulates in the vascular system of the plant. |
| Stomata | The minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of the plant. |
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