Test 6 Flashcards
Marg
Border; edge
Dendr
Tree
Mes
Middle; half; intermediate
Phyll
Leaf
Phyte
Plant
Rhiz
Root
Spor
Seed
Thall
Young shoot
Trache
Windpipe
Vas
Vessel
Xyl
Wood
Chlor
Green
Trachephyte
Any vascular plants or members of the phylum tracheophyta
Life cycle
Series of changes that an organism goes through but returning to the starting state
Vascular tissue
Specialized tissue that transports water and the products of photosynthesis throughout a cell
Pteridophyte
Vascular plants that reproduce and disperse spores
Epiphyte
A plant that derives it’s moisture and nutrients from the air and rain
Fern
Vascular plants that reproduce spores
Club moss
Small slow growing plants
Ground pine
Same as club moss
Horsetail
Nonflowering plant that produces spores
Frond
Large leaf of a fern
Rhizome
Thick, fleshy stem that grows beneath the surface of the ground
Fiddlehead
The young sporophyte of a fern