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Plant Reproduction
Term | Definition |
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Sporophyte | The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant produces spores. |
Gametophyte | The stage in the life cycle of a plant in which the plant produces gametes, or sex cells. |
Annual | A flowering plant that produces seeds enclosed in a protective fruit. |
Biennial | A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in two years. |
Perennial | A flowering plant that lives for more than two years. |
Fertilization | The process in sexual production in which an egg and a sperm cell join to form a new cell |
Zygote | A fertilized egg, produced by the joining of a sperm cell and an egg cell. |
Cone | The reproductive structure of a gymnosperm. |
Ovule | A plant structure in seed plants that produces the female gametophyte; Contains an egg cell. |
Fruit | The ripened ovary and other structures of an angiosperm that enclose one or more seeds. |