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Fragmentation

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a large spreading or vining plant grows to several meters in length and individual parts become self-sufficient by establishing adventitious roots; if middle portions of the plant die, the ends become separated and act as individuals

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Vegetative Reproduction

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Ramets

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Genets

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Apomixis

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Sperm and eggs

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sex cells called gametes

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Zygote

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one sperm and one egg come together and the diploid cell which is the fertilized cell

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Embryo

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Adult sporophyte

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a diploid plant that produces spores

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Spores

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a single cell that is a means of asexual reproduction; it can grow into a new organism but cannot fuse like a gamete

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Gametophyte

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a haploid plant that produces gametes

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Complete Flowers

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a flower having sepals, petals, stamens and carpels

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Incomplete flower

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a flower that is missing one or more of the four basic appendages (sepals, petals, stamens, carpels or any combination)

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Pedicel

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the stalk of an individual flower

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Receptacle

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the stem (axis) of a flower, to which all the other are attached

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Sepals

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in flowers, the outermost of the fundamental appendages, most often providing protection of the flower during its development

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Calyx

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collective term for all the sepals of one flower

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Petals

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the appendages, usually colored on a flower, most often involved in attracting pollinators

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Corolla

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a collective term for all the petals of a single flower

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Stamens

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the organs of a flower involved in producing microspores (pollen)

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Filament

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the stalk of a stamen, it elevates the anther

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Anther

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the portion of a stamen that contains sporogenous tissue which produces microspores (pollen)

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Carpel

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organ of a flower that contains ovules and is involved in the production of megaspores, seeds and fruits

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Ovary

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in a flower, the base of the carpel; the region that contains ovules and will develop into a fruit

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Style

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in the carpel, the tissue that elevates the stigma above the ovary

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Stigma

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in a carpel of a flower, the receptive tissue to which pollen adheres

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Androecium

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a collective term referring to all the stamens of one flower

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Microsporocytes

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in a heterogeneous species, a cell that undergoes meiosis, resulting in the production of four microspores

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Pollen

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in seed plants, the microspores and microgametophytes

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Gynoecium

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a collective term referring to all the carpels of a flower

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Placenta

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tissue in the ovary of a carpel to which the ovules are attached

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Ovule

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the structure in a carpel that contains megasporangium and will develop into a seed

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Nucellus

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the megasporangium of an ovule

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Nucellus

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the megasporangium of an ovule; central mass of parenchyma

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Integuments

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in flowers, the covering layer over the nucellus of an ovule; usually an inner and outer integument is present; two thin sheets of cells that cover almost the entire nucellus surface

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Microgametophyte

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a gametophyte that produces microgametes (sperms) only

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Vegetative cell

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large cell; in the pollen grain of seed plants, the cell or cells that do not give rise to the sperm cells; the cell that is not the generative cell

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Generative cell

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small lens-shaped; in the pollen grains of seed plants, the cell that gives rise directly to the sperm cells

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Pollen tube

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after landing on a compatible stigma or gymnosperm megasporophyll, a pollen gran germinates with a tubelike process that carries the sperm cells to the vicinity of the egg cell

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Megagametophyte

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a gametophyte that produces megagametes (eggs) only

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Embryo sac

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Embryo sac

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a common synonym for the megagametophyte of flowering plants; eggs

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Central cell with polar nuclei

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in the megagametophyte in a flower’s ovule, the cell that contains two nuclei (usually) and develops into endosperm after fertilization

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Antipodals

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one of several (usually three) cells in the angiosperm megagametophyte, located opposite the egg cell and the synergids

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Egg with synergids

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in the egg apparatus of an angiosperm megagametophyte, there is one egg and one or two adjacent cells, synergids; the pollen tube enters one of the synergids

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Double Fertilization

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the process unique to angiosperms in which one sperm fertilizes the egg (forming the zygote) and the other sperm fertilizes the polar nuclei (forming the primary endosperm nucleus)

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Endosperm

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the tissue, usually polyploid, which is formed during double fertilization only in angiosperms and which nourished the developing embryo and seedling

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Cotyledons

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in embryos of seed plants, the rather leaflike structures involved in either nutrient storage (most dicots and gymnosperms) or nutrient transfer from the endosperm (most monocots)

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Radicle

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main root of a seed; it is the direct continuation of the embryonic stem

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Epicotyl

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in the embryo of a seed, the embryonic shoot, located above the cotyledons

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Hypocotyl

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the portion of an embryo axis located between the cotyledons and the radicle

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Seed coat

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the protective layer on a seed; the seed coat develops from one or both integuments

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Exocarp

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outermost layer of the fruit wall; in fleshy fruits, the rind or peel

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Mesocarp

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the middle layer of the fruit wall

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Endocarp

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the innermost layer of the fruit wall, the pericarp

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Cross pollination

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the pollination of a flower by pollen from a completely different plant

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Self pollination

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the pollination of a flower by pollen from the same flower or another flower on the same plant

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Dichogamy

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Self incompatibility

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chemical reactions between pollen and carpels that prevent pollen growth; incompatibility genes

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Monoecy

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the condition in which a species has imperfect flowers (some staminate, others capellate) but both are located on the same sporophyte

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Dioecy

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the condition in which a species has two types of sporophyte - one with stamens and one with carpels

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Coevolution

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two species become increasingly adapted to each other, resulting in a highly specific interaction

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Pollination Syndromes

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Determinate Inflorescence

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has a limited potential for growth because the inflorescence apex is converted to a flower, ending its possibilities for continued growth

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Indeterminate Inflorescence

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the lowest or outermost flowers open first and even while these flowers are open, new flowers are still being initiated at the apex

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Coryumb

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a flower cluster whose lower stalks are proportionally longer so that the flowers form a flat or slightly convex head

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Cyme

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a flower cluster with a central stem bearing a single terminal flower that develops first, the other flowers in the cluster developing as terminal buds of lateral stems

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Head

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anything from a small cluster to hundreds or sometimes thousands of flowers are grouped together to form a single flower-like structure

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Panicle

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a loose, branching cluster of flowers, as in oats

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Raceme

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a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem. The flowers at the base of the central stem develop first

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Spike

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stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated unbranched axis, with the flowers at the bottom opening first

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Umbel

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a flower cluster in which stalks of nearly equal length spring from a common center and form a flat or curved surface, characteristic of the parsley family

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True fruit

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a fruit that developed only from carpel tissue, not containing any other tissue

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Accessory fruit

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a fruit that contains nonovarian tissue

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Simple fruit

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a fruit that develops from a single carpel or the fused carpels of a single flower

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Aggregate fruit

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a fruit that develops from the crowding together of several separate carpels of one flower; ie raspberries

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Multiple fruit

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a fruit formed by the crowding together of the individual fruits of an entire inflorescnce; ie figs and pineapples

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Dehiscent fruit

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break open and release the seeds

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Indehiscent fruit

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remaining closed at maturity, not opening; true of many fruits and the megasporangia of seed plants

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