Chapter 9 plants test Flashcards
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Plants
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A living thing that grows in earth, water, and other plants and produce seeds
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NonVascular plants
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Plants that lack a well developed system of tubes for transporting water and other minerals
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Vascular plants
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Plants with a well developed system of tubes for transporting water and other minerals
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Mosses
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Nonvascular plants
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Ferns
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Vascular plants
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Phloem
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One type of vascular tissue, it transports food
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Xylem
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A second type of vascular tissue, it transports water and minerals
8
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Pollen
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Are tiny structures that contain the cells that will later become sperm cells
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Seeds
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Develops after pollen fertilizes an egg cell
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Germination
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When the embryo begins to grow again breaking out of the seed
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Fibrous roots
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A root system of many, similarly sized, tangled roots
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