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Classifying plants
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nonvascular plants | plants have no true vascular tissue |
| rhizoid | a thin rootlike structure that anchors a moss and absorbs water and nutrients for the plant |
| Vascular plant | a plant that has true vascular tissue for transporting materials |
| phloem | the vascular tissue which food moves in some plants |
| xylem | the vascular tissue through which water and minerals move in some plants |
| Frond | the leaf of a fern plant |
| pollen | Tiny structure produced by seed plants that contain the cell that later becomes a sperm cell |
| seed | The plant structure that contains a young plant and a food supply inside a protective covering |
| gymnosperm | A plant that produces seeds directly on the scales of cones - not enclosed by a protective fruit |
| Angiosperm | a flowering plant that produces seeds enclosed in a protective fruit |