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Plant Structure (flowers) Flashcards

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What is the xylem

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Dead cells transport water through it

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What is the phloem

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Living cells transport food through out the cells

Food=phloem

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Seeds of the equivalent to a

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Fertilized egg

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What is the main male flower part called

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Stamen

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The main female flower part called

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Pistil

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What are the two parts of the stamen

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Anthers and filaments

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What is the anther

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Carry the pollen

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What is the filament

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Support the anther

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What are the three parts of the Pestil

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Stigma style ovary

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What is the stigma

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Sticky surface at the top of the pistil it traps and holds the pollen

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What is the style

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Tubelike structure that holds up the stigma: it leads down to the ovary

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What is the ovary

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Contains the ovules (eggs) after fertilization the ovules become the seeds and provide food

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What are the petals

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Attract pollinators

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What are the sepals

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Green petal like parts of the base of the flower

Protect the developing bud

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What happens when pollination occurs

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Pollen moves from the mail parts to the female parts (anther to stigma/pistil)

Pollen grains land on the stigma and a tiny tube grows from it and it down the style into the ovary

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What happens when fertilization occurs internally

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The fertilized of you will becomes the seed and the ovary becomes the fruit

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What are angiosperms

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Enclosed seed
Abundant
Last to evolve

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What are gymnosperms

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Any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed seed or ovule as opposed to an angiosperm or flowering plant the seeds are enclosed by mature ovaries are fruits
Naked seeds

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What is the vascular tissue

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Water and minerals enter through the root of the plant and move through the vascular tissue

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