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1
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What is the term for the pollen producing part of a plant?

A

Anther

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What is the term for the opening in leaves that allows gas to flow in and out?

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Stomata

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What is the term for the part of a root that allows it to absorb more water and nutrients?

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Root hair

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What is the term for the root like structures found in mosses and other non vascular plants?

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Rhizoids

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What is the term for the part that is found at the end of roots to protect the apical meristem?

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Root cap

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What is the term for the leaf-like structures that protect a bud before the flower blooms?

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Sepals

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What is the term for the female part of the plant?

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Carpel

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What is the term for the male part of the flower?

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Stamen

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What is the perm for the seed-containing ripened ovary of a plant?

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Fruit

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What is the term for the waxy coating around parts of a plant that will keep in water?

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Cuticle

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What meristem allows plants to grow up from the stem and down from the roots?

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Apical Meristem

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What is a fancy term for NAKED SEED?

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Gymnosperm

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What is the food source for a plant’s embryo - before it starts to photosynthesize?

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The cotyledon

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What is the term that refers to plants with an ENCLOSED SEED?

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Angiosperm

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What type of tissue allows nutrients and water to move quickly throughout the plant?

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Vascular Tissue

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What is the term for a plant that produces seeds that contain two cotyledons?

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dicot

17
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What meristam allows the plant to grow outward, like the rings in the trunk of a tree?

A

Lateral Meristem

18
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What is the type of tissue that does miscellaneous jobs in the plant like Photosynthesis?

A

Ground Tissue

19
Q

What type of stem can photosynthesize?

A

Herbaceous

20
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What type of stem does NOT Photosynthesize?

A

Woody Stem

21
Q

What are the four major traits of Plants?

A

Multi cellular Eukaryotas
Immotile
Cellulose in cell walls
Photosynthetic autotrophs

22
Q

How do plants spread their pollen?

A

Wind
Insects
flowers - bright colors
smell

Insects

23
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How do plants with attract pollinators?

A

Color

Scent

24
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Why are non-vascular plants small?

A

They move nutrients and water through osmosis and diffusion

25
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Why is it important for seeds to be dispersed?

A

To spread out and they can avoid competition

26
Q

What organisms did plants evolve from?

A

Protists - algae

27
Q

What do adaptations for land plants help the from doing?

A

Drying out

28
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What direction does Xylem send nutrients and water?

A

Up from the roots

29
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What directions does phloem send nutrients and water?

A

Up and down the Plant

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