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plant vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| green pignemt from cells | Chlorophyll |
| a flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons | dicot |
| any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart. | vein |
| a protective and waxy or hard layer covering the epidermis of a plant, invertebrate, or shell | cuticle |
| he part of a plant that attaches it to the ground or to a support, | root |
| a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower | pollen |
| 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. | xylem |
| the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean. | stem |
| a flowering plant with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon | monocot |
| a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. | chloroplast |
| he transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization. | pollination |
| he development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy. | germnation |
| the protective outer coat of a seed. | seed coat |
| put forth shoots | sprout |
| a flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of photosynthesis and transpiration. | leaf |
| A small, usually single-celled reproductive body | spore |
| the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves. | phloem |
| a straight tapering root growing vertically downward and forming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring. | taproot |
| an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed. | cotyledon |
| an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed. | sap |
| ny of the minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of a plant, forming a slit of variable width that allows movement of gases in and out of the intercellular spaces. | stomata |
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