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1
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Broad categories of modern plants

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Nonvascular and vascular

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Present only in vascular plants. Tissue specialized for the transport of water and solutes through a plant

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Vascular tissue

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These include mosses, liverworts, and other related plants

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Nonvascular plants

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Nonvascular plants have ______ instead of roots, flat broad tissues that contain chloroplasts like leaves

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rhizoids

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More than 90% of modern plants are _______

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Vascular plants

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Most vascular plants have leaves that are covered with and are also provided with pores for gaseous exchange

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Cuticle

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7
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The size of the leaf pores in vascular plants are controlled by special cells called

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Guard cells

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8
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There are about ______ known species of plants on Earth

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500, 000

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9
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The cell walls of new plants are harder because of the compound ____

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Lignin

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10
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Protects plants from winter’s cold. Other produce antifreeze compounds.

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bud scales

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Vascular plants produce either to reproduce

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spores or seeds

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A protective structure that contains a plant embryo and stored food.

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Seed

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13
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The more recent classification of plants is based on the use of _______

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Biochemistry and molecular biology

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14
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10 divisions of plants

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Marchantiophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), Bryophyta (mosses),
Filicophyta (ferns),
Cycadophyta (cycads),
Sphenophyta (horsetails),
Pinophyta (conifers),
Ginkgophyta (ginkgo)s,
Gnetophyta (gnetophytes)
Magnoliophyta (Angiosperms)

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Include all nonvascular plants: the other 9 include vascular plants

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Bryophyta

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The Bryophyta includes three classes:

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Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts

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17
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The vascular plants are classified into _______

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Seedless plants (ferns) and seed plants

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18
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Seed plants are divided into

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gymnosperms and angiosperms

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19
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Producing seeds that lack a protective fruit

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Gymnosperms

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20
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Produced seeds enclosed and protected by a fruits

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Angiosperms

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Flowering plants

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Angiosperms

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Angiosperms with only one cotyledon

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Monocots

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Angiosperms with two cotyledon

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Dicots

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24
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A series of organisms through which energy moves, in the form of foods.

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Food chain

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25
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Scattered with hair-like structures

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Monocot roots

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26
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Ability to grow deep and without hair-like structures

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Dicot roots

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27
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Function of Plants

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Source of food and materials
Human diet include plants
Use to make cotton and rope
Produce wood for building houses and paper
Use in spices and coffee

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In sexual reproduction, the two kinds of gametes are produced by the mosses

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Egg and sperm

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29
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The egg producing organ of moss is called an

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Archegonium

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30
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The sperm producing organ of moss is called

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Antheridium

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31
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Fertilization produces a blank that undergoes mitosis and become a sporophyte

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Zygote

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32
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In asexual reproduction, there are two ways by which mosses reproduce asexuality

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Fragmentation and Gemmae production

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Occurs when small pieces break from a gametophyte and grow into a new plant

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Fragmentation

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Are tiny pieces of tissue that can form new gametophyte

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Gemmae

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35
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A kind of moss that form peat bogs, converts a pond into marshy soil

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Peat moss

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36
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Wet ecosystem that is home to many interesting organisms like the carnivorous plants

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Peat bog

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37
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The name was given because of a belief of people in medieval times that the plant could cure liver disease

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Liverworts

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38
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Like some of those liverworts however, the archegonia and antheridia of this form inside the plant

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Hornworts

39
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Vascular plants that reproduce by soil

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Seedless vascular plants

40
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Plant whose highly branched stems resemble the straws in the broom

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Whisk fern

41
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Underground stems that functions as roots are called

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Rhizomes

42
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It is not a true moss. It is a low-growing vascular plant

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Club moss

43
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Have photosynthetic stem and underground rhizomes like the whisk ferns

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Horsetails

44
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The largest group of living seedless vascular plants are the

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Ferns

45
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What are the Seedless Vascular Plants

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Whisk Ferns
Club Mosses
Horsetails
Ferns

46
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The main function of this is to absorb water and minerals

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Roots

47
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The core of the root consist of a vascular cylinder which contains xylem and phloem

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Structure

48
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In this root, the vascular tissue form a solid core at the center of the root

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Dicot roots

49
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The vascular tissue forms a ring that central region of cells known as pith

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Monocot roots

50
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A layer of cells separate the cortex from the vascular cylinder

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Endodermis

51
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Root types

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Fibrous root system of grass
Taproot system of dandelion

52
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The first root to emerge

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Primary root

53
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In some plants such as the beets and carrots, the primary roots enlarge called

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Taproot

54
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In grass, the roots are numerous and are extensively branch called

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Fibrous roots

55
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Holds the leaves up to the sunlight and transport water and food between roots and leaves

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Stem

56
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Plants use their many leaves to trap light for

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Photosynthesis

57
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Leaves consist of

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Broad flat blade and stemlike petiole

58
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Surround the stomata and regulate the entrance and exit of materials depending on environmental

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Guard cells

59
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Plant Movement and response

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Phototropism
Gravitropism
Nastic movement
Photoperiodism
Thigmotrophism

60
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The response of plants to a light source

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Phototropism

61
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The growth in response to gravity

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Gravitropism

62
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The response of plants to touch causes plants

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Thigmotrophism

63
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The response that occur in the same way regardless of the direction of the stimulus

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Nastic movement

64
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Any response to a plants that is linked to day length

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Photoperiodism

65
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Plants have a special group of chemicals called

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hormones

66
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Organic compounds that are produced and released by one part of an organism

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Hormones

67
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The first identified plant hormones

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Auxins

68
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A plant hormone that causes cells to grow

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Auxins

69
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A plant hormone that causes the cell to grow larger

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Gibberellins

70
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Cause cells to divide and stimulate seeds to germinate and grow

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Cytokinins

71
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Control dormancy and this enables plants to survive

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Ethylene and Abscisic Acid

72
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Consist mostly of secondary xylem

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Wood

73
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The outer light-colored layers of secondary xylem is called

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Sapwood

74
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When the xylem get clogged, they become dark-colored and called

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Heartwood

75
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They are gymnosperms trees, lack fibers, and are easy to cut and nail

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Softwoods

76
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Have veins that run parallel to each other

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Monocot leaves

77
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Can either be pinnate or palmate

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Dicot leaves

78
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Like feather with a smaller veins

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Palmate leaves

79
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The theory that explains water movement in plants is known as the

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Transpiration - cohesion theory

80
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Produce reproductive structures called seed instead of spores

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Seed plants

81
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All seeds contain this and stored food in a protective “seed coat”

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Embryo

82
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Seeds that are inactive while they wait for optimal growing conditions

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Dormant seeds

83
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There are about numbers species of gymnosperms

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700

84
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Gymnosperms have m and f what and on the same tree the produce m and f what

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Cones and gametes

85
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A structure consisting of an egg and develops into a seed

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Ovule

86
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The transfer of pollen from the male to female part of the plant

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Pollination

87
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The reproductive structure of angiosperms is

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Flower

88
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Attracts pollinators and protect the developing flowers

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Sterile parts

89
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The egg-producing part of flower is called

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Pistil

90
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In male, the pollen-producing part of the flower is called

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Stamen

91
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The sterile parts of the flowers are the

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Petals and sepal

92
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Asexual reproduction that occurs naturally in plants is called

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Vegetative reproduction

93
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A way to make two different plants grow as one by diffusing their cut ends

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Grafting

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