Alternative name for nonvascular plants
What are bryophytes?
These plants reproduce by seeds and spores
What are seed plants? OR What are vascular seed plants?
The opening of the leaf
What is stoma?
Cell walls are made of this
What is cellulose?
Anchors a plant in the soil and absorbs water and dissolved minerals.
What is a root system?
The ways nonvascular plants reproduce
What are spores?
A young plant in a seed plant
What is an embryo?
Packed Cells that make most of the plant food
What is the palisade layer?
When classifying plants this reproductive aspect is an important determiner in classifying them.
What are seeds?
An example of a gymnosperm
What is a pine tree? A conifer, a cycad, or a ginkgo?
Three main groups of nonvascular plants
What are liverworts, hornworts, and moss?
This literally means "covered seed"
What is an angiosperm?
The covering that prevents water loss from a leaf
What is the cuticle?
An important determiner in classifying plants.
What is vascular tissue?
This type of seed plant produces flowers
What is an angiosperm?
In a bryophyte this consists of the stalk and the capsule
What is the sporophyte?
This literally means "bare seeds"
What is a gymnosperm?
What is the phloem?
Examples of seedless vascular plants
What are 1) ferns, 2) horsetails 3) club mosses
Two main types of root systems
What is a 1) taproot system 2) fibrous root system
The green leafy part along with the rhizoids in a bryophyte
What is a gametophyte?
A protective covering around an angiosperm
What is a fruit?
Bundle of vascular tissue
What is a vein?
Three major categories of plant classification
What is 1) nonvascular plants 2)seedless vascular plants 3) seed-bearing vascular plants
what is a herbaceous stem, what is a woody stem