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Flowers
Term | Definition |
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Sporophte | The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant producess spores |
Gametophyte | The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant produces gametes, or sex cells |
Annual | The flowering plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season |
Biennial | A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years |
Perennial | A flowering plant that lives |
Fertilization | The proccess in sexual reproduction in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new cell |
Zygote | A fertilized egg, produced by the joining of a sperm cell and a egg cell |
Cone | The reproductive struceture of a gymnosperm |
Ovule | The flower structure the encloses and protects ovules and seeds as they develop |
Fruit | The rippened ovary and other structure s of an angiosperm that enclose one or more seeds |