Question | Answer |
nonvascular plant | 3 groups of plants (liverworts, hornworts, and mosses) that lack specialized conducting tissues and true roots, stems and leaves |
vascular plant | plant that has specialized tissues that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another |
gymnosperm | a woody, vascular seed plant whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit |
angiosperm | a flowering plant that produces seeds within a fruit |
rhizoid | rootlike structure in non vascular plants that holds the plants in place and helps plants get water and nutrients |
rhizome | horizontal, underground stem that produces new leaves, shoots, and roots |
pollen | tiny granules that contain the male gametophyte of seed plants |
pollination | transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to the female structures of seed plants |
xylem | type of tissue in vascular plants that provides support and conducts water and nutrients from the roots |
phloem | tissue that conducts food into vascular plants |
sepal | in a flower, one of the outermost rings of modified leaves that protect the flower bud |
petal | one of the usually brightly colored, leaf-shaped parts that make up one of the rings of a flower |
stamen | male reproductive structure of a flower that produces pollen and consists of an anther at the tip of a filament |
pistil | female reproductive part of a flower that produces seeds and consists of an ovary, style and stigma |
ovary | in flowering plants, the lower part of a pistil that produces eggs in ovules |