Chpt 27-28 Seale
Ms. Seale's vocab
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- cultivars
- selected by people, and they have at least one distinguishing characteristic that sets them apart from other members of their species
- deciduous
- trees that lose their leaves at the end of the growing season,like the ginkgo
- spore
- a haploid reproductive cell surrounded by a hard outer wall
- gametophyte
- plnats that produces eggs and sperm
- hay fever
- an allergic reaction that results in sneezing, a runny nose, and watering eyes
- root crops
- roots or underground stems that are rich in carbohydrates
- quiine
- comes from the bark of the cinchona and is used to treat malaria
- cereals
- grasses that contian grains
- pesticides
- chemicals that kill undesirable organisms that harm crops, such as some insects
- gasohol
- made of about 10 percent alcohol, an alternative fuel for automobiles
- vegetables
- foods derived from the leaves stems, seeds and roots of nonwoody plants
- germinated
- the seed sprouts when conditions favor growth
- cotyledons
- seed leaves
- seed
- an embryo surrounded by a protective coat
- bryophytes
- the three phyla of nonvascular plants
- parallel venation
- a parellel arrangement of veins, typical of the leaves of monocots
- legumes
- members of the pea family and bear seed in pods
- fertilizers
- supply plants with essential mineral nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus
- fronds
- fiddleheads uncoil and develop into mature leaves
- agriculture
- growing plants and raising animals
- net venation
- a nonparellel, branching network of veins that is typically of the leaves of dicots
- dicots
- usually have two cotyledon
- vascular plants
- have vascular tissue and true roots, stems, and leaves
- plant ecology
- study of the interactions between plants and the enviroments
- herbs
- used to add taste to food,come from the leaf and are grown in the home garden
- fiddleheads
- tightly coiled new leaves of ferns
- seed plants
- plants that produce seeds for reproduction
- spices
- used to add taste to food, plants parts other than the leaf and are tropical
- weeds
- undesirable plants that often crowd out crop plants or native plant species
- sporophyte
- plants that produces spores
- fruit
- the part of a flowering plant that usually contains seeds
- nonvascular pantss
- have neither true vascular tissue nor true roots, stems, or leaves
- gymnosperms
- include pine trees, are seed plants that produce seeds that aren ot enclosed in fruits
- botany
- study of plants
- alternation of generations
- a life cycle that alternates between the gametophyte phase and sporophyte phase
- angiosperms
- also known as flowweing plants, are seed plants that produce seeds within a protective fruit
- vascular tissue
- type of tissue which transports water and dissolved substances form one part of the plant to another
- seedling
- the embryo begins to grow into a young plant
- nut
- dry, hard, fruit that does not split open to release its seed
- veins
- bundles of vascualr tissue
- phloem
- carries organic compunds, such as carbohydrates, and some inorganic nutrients in any direction, depending on the plant's needs
- liverworts
- unusual-looking lants that grow in moist, shady areas, phylum hepatophyta
- cuticle
- a waxy protective covering on plant surfaces that prevents water loss
- strobilus
- cone, whicc is a cluster of sporangia-bearing modified leaves
- rhizome
- an underground stem which most ferns have
- xylem
- carries absorbed water and inorganic nutrients in one direction, from the roots to the stems and leaves
- hornworts
- grow in moist shaded areas, phylum anthocerophyta
- cone
- a reproductive structure composed of hard scales
- aspirin
- acetylsalicylic acid, the world's most widely used medicine
- monocots
- usually have one cotyledon
- ovary
- the female part of the flower that encloses the egg(s)