Vas/Non-Vas
Plants that lack a vascular system with xylem and phloem.
What is a non-vascular plant?
The process by which plants use the energy from the sun to create plant food and oxygen using water and carbon dioxide.
Plants that remain green and have leaves or needles the entire year.
What is evergreen?
The scientific study of plants.
What is botany?
The tubes in a vascular plant that send water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves.
What is xylem?
A period in a plant's life cycle when growth and development stop temporarily.
What is dormancy?
Plants that drop their leaves, usually in autumn.
What is deciduous?
The smallest building block of a living organism.
What is a cell?
A plant that has special tubes, called xylem and phloem, to transfer water and nutrients through the plant.
What is a vascular plant?
The transfer of pollen from the stamens to the pistil.
What is pollination?
A green pigment that gives a plant its color and is responsible for absorbing the sun's light, providing energy for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The part of a seed that feeds the baby plant, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear upon germination of the seed; different from other leaves produced by the plant.
What is cotyledon?
The tubes in a vascular plant that send sugars and amino acids from the leaves to the rest of the plant after photosynthesis.
What is phloem?
The development of a plant from a seed.
What is germination?
A non-flowering plant with exposed seeds (such as pine cones).
What is a gymnosperm?
Made up of more than one cell, as seen in plants.
What is multicellular?
Gravity, air, animals, water, explosion.
How do seeds travel?
A flowering plant that produces seeds within an ovary or fruit.
What is an angiosperm?
A type of cell that contains a nucleus and specialized organelles.
What is eukaryotic?