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Plant Kingdom
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Biology
10th Grade
05/24/2006

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tracheophytes
Definition
plants containing vascular tissue
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moss
Definition
example of a bryophyte
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mesophyll layer
Definition
photosynthetic layer of palisade cells and spongy cells in a plant leaf
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angiosperms
Definition
flowering plants
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bryophytes
Definition
nonvascular land plants requiring free water to complete fertilization
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gametophyte
Definition
haploid gamete-producing generation in plant life cycles
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sporophyte
Definition
diploid spore-bearing generation in plant life cycle
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gymnosperms
Definition
vascular plants that bear unprotected or naked seeds
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monocots
Definition
flowering plants with one cotyledon, parallel veined leaves and plower parts in multiples of three
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dicots
Definition
flowering plants with two cotyledon, net-veined leaves, and floral parts arranged in 4s and 5s
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ginkgos
Definition
spore-bearing, seedless vascular plants w/ leaves called fronds and a vascularized rhizome that gives rise to roots and leaves
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conifers
Definition
woody gymnosperms that have needle like leaves and cones
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stomata
Definition
opening in the lower epidermis of a plant leaf that allows carbon dioxide to enter leaf and oxygen and water vapor to leave
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transpiration pull
Definition
movement of water due to evaporation and water loss from a plant's above-ground parts
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ferns
Definition
deciduous gymnosperms that have fan-shaped leaves
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xylem
Definition
plant vascular tissue that conducts water and minerals
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phloem
Definition
plant vascular tissue that conducts sugars and other organic solutions
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horsetails
Definition
seedless vascular palnts w/ scale-shaped leaves and hollow photosynthetic stems containing silica
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lycophytes
Definition
early seedless vascular plants such as club mosses
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phototropism
Definition
plant response or movement toward the lights due to unequal concentrations of auxin
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vascular tissue
Definition
conducting and supportive plant tissues that distribute water, minerals and other solutes through a vascular plant
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palisade cells
Definition
photosynthetic cells lined up parallel to each other in the plant leaf and containing many chloroplasts
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guard cells
Definition
photosynthetic cells in the lower epidermis of a plant leaf that open and close the stomates
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translocation
Definition
process by which organic compounds are distributed through the plant body
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alternation of generations
Definition
plant life cycle
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whisk ferns
Definition
early seedless vascular plants without true roots and leaves, but having rhizomes and photosynthetic branched stems w/ scale-like projections
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