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Flowers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |