BOTANY FLASHCARDS
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- botany
- study of plants
- biology
- "the study of living things"
- bio
- life
- ology
- the study of
- botane, gk
- plant
- classification
- process of placing things into groups
- bi
- two
- nome
- name
- clature
- to assign
- binomial
- two names
- nomenclature
- name assigning
- binomial nomenclature
- assigning two names
- kingdom
- one hugh group
- plant kingdom
- kingdom Plantae (plan' tay)
- naturalist
- one who studies nature
- vascular
- tubes that carry fluid
- veins (vaynes)
- tubes that carry fluid
- xylem (zy'lum)
- tubes-carry water/chemicals up plant
- phloem (floh' em)
- tubes-carry sugar/other chemicals down plant
- midrib
- one vein, middle of leaf, thicker than rest
- vascular plant
- a plant that has roots, stems, and leaves
- nonvascular plant
- there are not tubes in the plant, plant must absorb water like a paper towel, need lots of water
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example of a
nonvascular plant - moss that grows on rocks and trees
- lichens (like' un
- plant like clumps,grow on rocks
- pod
- vessel holds seeds, outer shell of peanut
- plants that make seeds
- angiosperms, and gymnosperms
- Anthrophyta (an' thoh fie" tuh) gk
- plants that make flowers
- angiosperm
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angio = container
sperm = another word for seed
seed container - gymnosperm
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gymno = uncovered
sperm = seed
uncovered seed - gymnosperm have four different phyla
- 1. Coniferophyta (con ih' fur oh fye' tuh)
- Conifer (latin)
- cone bearer
- phyta
- plant
- phylum Pterophyta (tare uh fie' tuh)
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fern
wing plant - Is a fern vascular or non vascular?
- vascular
- ptero (gk)
- wing
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sporangia (spuh ran' jee uh)
(seedless vascular plant) -
angia = container
spore container - little balls that are filled with spores
- sporangia
- seed
- baby plant in a box with its lunch
- spore
- baby plant and a protective coating (no food for the baby plant)
- spore-maker, not a flower-maker
- fern
- do non-vascular plants make seeds (mosses)
- no, they make sporangia
- phylum Bryophyta (bry oh fie' tuh).
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bryo (gk) = moss
"moss plant" - lichen are not really plants
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two living things
fungus (mushroom) + algie (al' jee)(small, microscope, usually live in water) - lichen -- if the air is very clean what color will the lichen be?
- green--the cleaner the air the greener the lichen