Vocabulary Chapter 17 Pt 2

Question 0

A close association of plant roots and fungi that is beneficial to both partners

Answer 0

Mycorrhizae

Question 1

The densely branched network of hyphae in a fungus

Answer 1

Mycelium

Question 2

In animals, the female gonad which produces egg cells and reproductive hormones

Answer 2

Ovary

Question 3

Organism that derives it’s nutrition from a living host

Answer 3

Parasite

Question 4

A modified leaf of a flowering plant

Answer 4

Petal

Question 5

The portion of a plant’s vascular tissue system that conveys phloem sap throughout a plant

Answer 5

Phloem

Question 6

The structure that will produce the sperm in seed plants

Answer 6

Pollen grains

Question 7

In seed plants, the delivery of pollen, by wind or animals

Answer 7

Pollination

Question 8

Member of a Ascomycete characterized by saclike structures called asci that produce spores in sexual reproduction

Answer 8

Sac fungus

Question 9

A plant embryo packaged with a food supply within a protective covering

Answer 9

Seed

Question 10

A tough outer covering of a seed

Answer 10

Seed coat

Question 11

The informal collective name for lycophytes and pterophytes

Answer 11

Seedless vascular plants

Question 12

A modified leaf of a flowering plant

Answer 12

Sepal

Question 13

A structure in fungi and plants in which meiosis occurs and haploid spores develope

Answer 13

Sporangium

Question 14

In plants and algae, a haploid that can develop into a multicellular individual without fusing with another cell

Answer 14

Spore

Question 15

The multicellular diploid form in the life cycle of organisms undergoing alternation of generations

Answer 15

Sporophyte

Question 16

A pollen-producing male reproductive part of a flower

Answer 16

Stamen

Question 17

A plant with xylem and phloem

Answer 17

Vascular plant

Question 18

A system formed by xylem and phloem throughout the plant

Answer 18

Vascular tissue system

Question 19

The nonliving portion of a plant’s vascular system that provides support and conveys this substance

Answer 19

Xylem

Question 20

A single-celled fungus that inhabits liquid or moist habits and reproduces asexually by simple cell division or by the pinching of small buds off a parent cell

Answer 20

Yeast

Question 21

Member of a group of fungi characterized by a sturdy structure called a zygosporangium during sexual reproduction

Answer 21

Zygomycete