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Science Chap 9
Asexual Reproduction Vocab
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asexual reproduction | reproduction, as budding, fission, or spore formation, not involving the union of gametes. |
binary fission | fission into two organisms approximately equal in size |
budding | a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud), the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud), or both (mixed bud). |
bulb | a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily. |
fleshy root | enlarged root containing stored foods |
grafting | a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow. |
regeneration | process in which energy from the output of an amplifier is fed back to the grid circuit to reinforce the input. |
spontaneous generation | the now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter; spontaneous generation. |
spore cases | protective sacs on which the reproductive spores of some plants and fungi |
spore fermation | asexual reproduction of some plants and fungi |
spores | walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly. |
stem cutting | piece of stem cut from a live to start a new plant |
tuber | usually oblong or rounded thickening or outgrowth, as the potato, of a subterranean stem or shoot, bearing minute scalelike leaves with buds or eyes in their axils from which new plants may arise. |
vegetative organ | an organ of a plant that makes, transports, or stores food |
vegetative ptopagation | asexual reproduction of plants from their vegetative organs |
vegetative reproduction | asexual reproduction of plants from their vegetative organs |