Voc
Characteristics of Plants
Seedless Plants
Seed Plants
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100
waxy layer on leaves and stems
What is the cuticle?
100
plants are thought to have evolved from
What is green algae?
100
peat is the earliest form of this material
What is coal?
100
the main function of the leaves
What is to make food?
100
flowering plants with two cotyledons in their seeds
What is dicot?
200
small openings in a leaf's surface
What is stomata?
200
plants with a tubelike system of vessels to transport water and nutrients throughout the plant
What are vascular plants?
200
the most abundant group of seedless vascular plants
What are ferns?
200
the main function of roots
What to absorb water?
200
the outer "skin" of a leaf
What is the epidermis?
300
vascular plants with NO flowers and NO fruit that produce seeds on cones
What is gymnosperm?
300
name given to the first plants to grow in a new environment
What are pioneer species?
300
rootlike filaments that hold moss in place
What are rhizoids?
300
the main function of the stems
What is to distribute nutrients?
300
seeds are protected in angiosperms with this material
What is fruit?
400
cells that surround the stomata that open and close them
What are guard cells?
400
vascular tissue that transports water throughout the plant
What is xylem?
400
nonvascular lack this plant part
What are leaves, roots, or seeds?
400
the vascular tissue that transports food
What is phloem?
400
tissue that produces new xylem and phloem
What is cambium?
500
vascular plants with flowers that produce seeds in fruit
What are angiosperms?
500
composes the cell wall
What is cellulose?
500
are examples of seedless nonvascular plants and pioneer species
What are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts?
500
layer of the leaf that contains the most chlroplasts
What is the palisade layer?
500
are examples of vascular plants
What is just about any plant you can think of except moss, liverwort, and hornwort?
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