Chapter 3 Definitions Flashcards

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Vascular tissue

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Tissue that conducts water and nutrients through plants body

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Seed

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The small product from plants, makes new plants grow

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Spores

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Reproductive cell that can develop into new individuals without another cell

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Gametophyte

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Sexual phase in the alternation of generations of plants and few algae

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Sporophyte

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A diploid phase in the life cycle of plants and some algae

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Zygote

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The fertilized cell that will grown until a new animal /plant

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Gymnosperm

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Any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed cell

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Angiosperm

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Any plant that makes a flower to reproduce

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Blastula

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Cluster of dividing cells made by fertilized egg

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Bilateral symmetry

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Body of animal divided both sides are the same

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Radial symmetry

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Arrangements of body parts around a central axis

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Cephalization

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Evolutionary trend where overtime the mouth, nerves became forming to the front of the body forming the head

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Protostone

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Phylum under kingdom (animalia) mouth before anus

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Peuterostorme

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Groups together animals with bilateral symmetry. Anus before mouth

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Vertebrate

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Animal with backbone

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Invertebrate

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Animal with no backbone

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Marsupial mammal

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Group of mammals that carry baby in pouch

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Placental mammal

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Presence of placenta, vascular organ develops during gestation

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Amphibian

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Cold-blooded vertebrate, don’t have scales

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Reptile

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Animal that has scales instead of feathers or fur