plants Flashcards
Carry substances between roots and leaves; provide support for plant; holds leaves up to sunlight; produce leaves, branches, or flowers at the nodes
Stems
The plant structure that contains a young plant inside a protective covering
Seed
A vascular tissue that moves water and nutrients into the leaf
Xylem
A vascular tissue that moves finished sugars out of the leaf
Phloem
The organelle where chlorophyll is found
Chloroplast
the outer layer of bark
cork
And a layer of living cells just under the dead cork constantly dividing to produce new cork cells
cork cambium
tugor pressure
A kind of pressure caused by the presence of water inside a plant’s central vacuoles
taproot system and fibrous root system
Types of roots
I thin ring of Phloem and the tissue on the outside of the tree trunk
bark
a nonvascular plant that’s shaped like a human liver. found growing as a thick crust on moist rocks or soil along the sides of a stream.
Liverworts
A substance (made of sugars) that is common in the cell walls of many organisms
Cellulose
The waxy, waterproof layer that covers the leaves and stems of most plants.( keeps plants from water loss)
Cuticle
specialized tissue in plants that carries water and nutrients
vascular tissue
nonvascular plants
Bryophytes