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Exploring Creation with Botany
Vocabulary words Ch. 1
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Biology
4th Grade
01/24/2013
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Botany
 Definition
The study of plants
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Biology
 Definition
The study of living things
Term
Astrobiologist
 Definition
Astronauts who study living things
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Taxonomy
 Definition
The business of dividing plants up into different groups and naming each group
Term
Kingdoms
 Definition
Groups of living things
Term
Plantae
 Definition
The plant kingdom
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Phylum
 Definition
Smaller group than a kingdom
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Classification
 Definition
The process of placing things into groups
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Binomial Nomenclature
 Definition
Assigning two names
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Vascular plant
 Definition
A plant that has tubes that carry liquid inside the plant
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Xylem
 Definition
Tubes that carry water and chemicals up into the plant
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Phloem
 Definition
Tubes that flow down the plant and carry sugar and other chemicals
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Midrib
 Definition
The thick vein in the middle of the leaf that carries water through the leaf
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Pod
 Definition
An outer shell that is the vessel that holds the seed
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Nonvascular plant
 Definition
It does not have tubes to carry liquid.
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Angiosperm
 Definition
Seed container
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Gymnosperm
 Definition
Uncovered seed
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Anthophyta
 Definition
Flower-making plants
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Coniferophyta
 Definition
Cone-bearing plant
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Pterophyta
 Definition
Wing-plant
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Sporangia
 Definition
Spore container
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Bryophyta
 Definition
Moss-plant
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Lichen
 Definition
Fungus + algae = lichen
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