LIving things
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- tissue
- similar cells working together
- root hairs
- take in water and minirals and are tiny extentions
- cell wall
- the tough outer covering of a plant cell that gives it its rigit shape
- stem
- the part of a plant that supports the leaves and the flowers
- organ
- tissues that form together such as liver stomach and small intestine
- phlom tissue
- a tube that travels down and carries sugars and other nutrients down to te root
- taproot
- stores food in carrots or dandilions
- cell
- a basic unit of living things
- epidermis
- the layer of cells that cover the root
- fibrous roots
- system of branching grasses have fiborous roots
- nucleus
- the cell strucsure that controls all cells activitys
- life processes
- functions that a living thing must carry out in order to stay alive
- cortex
- the layer that connects the epidermis to the nner core
- xylem tissue
- a tube that travels up and carries water and minirals
- cell membrane
- a thin layer that surrounds all cells alows water and dissolved pass though in and out of the cell
- cytoplasm
- a jellylike subsatnse that fills much of the cell
- chloroplast
- used in the food-making process and captures light
- nutrients
- stubstance that are needed for organisim to live and grow
- roots
- an underground fondation for the plant
- leaf
- a part of a plant where photosythesis occers
- photosynthesis
- the process by whichproducers such as plants make their own food by the sun
- root cap
- at the tip of the root and pushes thourgh the soil
- vaculoe
- a cell part that stores water and nutrients