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Vocab Module 14
Module 14 Vocab Exploring Creation with Biology
Question | Answer |
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Botany | Study of plants |
Perennial plants | Plants that grow year after year |
Annual plants | Plants that live for only one year |
Biennial plants | Plants that live for two years |
Vegetative organs | Parts of a plant that are not involved in reproduction |
Reproductive plant organs | Parts of a plant involved in reproduction |
Undifferentiated cells | Cells that have not specialized in any particular function |
Xylem | Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves |
Phloem | Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant |
Leaf mosaic | Arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant |
Leaf margin | Characteristics of the leaf edge |
Deciduous plant | Plant that loses its leaves for winter |
Girdling | Process of cutting away a ring of inner and outer bark all the way around a tree trunk |
Alternation of generations | Life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form |
Dominant generation | In alternation of generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of the life cycle |
Pollen | Fine dust that contains the sperm of seed-producing plants |
Cotyledon | "Seed leaf" which develops as a part of the seed - it provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant |
Meristematic tissue | Plant tissue that contains cells that are undifferentiated. Also contains cells that perform mitosis. |
Petiole | Attaches leaf blade to the stem |
Vascular tissue | Tissue used to carry water and dissolved material throughout the plant - Xylem and Phloem |