Evolution of Plants
Vascular Tissue, Seeds, Flowers
Non-Vascular plants, and Seedless Vascular
Vascular Plant Structure
Plant growth and Development
100
The waxy covering that prevents a plant from losing moisture.
What is the cuticle?
100

The embryo of a land plant grows inside this hard structure.

What is a seed?

100
A plant that is very small, and does not have any internal structures.
What is a non-vascular plant?
100
The male and female gametophytes are formed inside this structure in gymnosperms.
What is a cone?
100
The first growth of a plant from a seed.
What is germination?
200
The pore in the waxy covering of a plant that opens and closes to allow water to escape.
What is the stomata?
200
The colourful reproductive structure of many different plants.
What is a flower?
200
Non vascular plants need it to reproduce.
What is water?
200
The name of the male gametophyte in seed plants
What is pollen?
200
How the sperm reaches the egg in vascular seed plants.
What is a pollen tube?
300
The name for the type of algae which first led to the evolution of land plants.
What is chlorophyta
300
This is the advantage to having a hard coating around a seed.
What is protection?
300

They are long thin cells that anchor the bryophytes to the soil.

What are rhizoids?

300
The plant type has a network of veins, petals and sepals grow in multiples of 4s or 5s, vascular bundles growing in a ring in the stem, and has 2 cotyledons (seed leaves).
What is a dicot?
300
After a seed germinates and begins to grow, it develops into a young plant called a __________.
What is a seedling?
400
An example of the first land plants.
What is moss?
400
This is the advantage of having a seed that can be carried to new places.
What is dispersal?
400
These are hard veins that transport water.
What is xylem?
400
The structure that supports the plant. Green and flexible in herbaceous plants, filled with bundles of xylem and phloem.
What is the stem?
400
The leaves of a monocot show this pattern.
What are parallel leaf veins?
500
The cells that open and close the pores of a plant.
What are the guard cells?
500
The advantage of having a seed that can feed itself for some time.
What is nourishment?
500

These are soft veins that transport sugar and nutrients.

What is phloem?

500
Each are attached to the stem by a stalk. These contain the chloroplasts in the cell and are the location of gas exchange and photosynthesis.
What is a leaf.
500
This part of the flower becomes the fruit.
What is the ovary?
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