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Plant Science
Question | Answer |
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Chlorophyll | a green pigment found in algae or plants |
dicot | flowering plant |
vein | a fracture in rock containing a deposit of minerals or ore and typically having a course underground |
cuticle | a protective hard or waxy layer |
root | part of a plant that attaches to the ground |
pollen | a powedery substance found on plants or from plants |
xylem | 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. |
stem | attached to a plant to hold the plant together |
monocot | are flowering plants whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. |
pollination | the transfer of pollen |
chloroplast | contains chlorophyll in which photosynthesis takes place. |
germination | the development of a plant from a seed or spore after a period of dormancy. |
seed coat | A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering. |
seed | A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering. |
conifers | are a division of vascular land plants containing a single class, Pinopsida. |
leaf | a flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. they are the main organs of photosynthesis |
sprout | (of a plant) put forth shoots. |
spore | a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans. |
phloem | the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves. |
taproot | a straight tapering root growing vertically downward and forming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring. |
cotyledon | an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed. |
sap | the fluid, chiefly water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts, that circulates in the vascular system of a plant. |
stomata | small openings of a leaf which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move. |