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Kingdom: Plant
Biology Chapters 21 & 22
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02/08/2004

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Angiosperms
Definition
The classification for all flowering plants
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Cycadales
Definition
Look like palm trees; found in tropical regions
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Ginkgoales
Definition
Large trees with strange leaves; called maidenhair
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Coniferales
Definition
Plants bearing woody cones
(protects the plant embryo)
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Seed Cones
Definition
woody cones that take several months to develop; contain seeds
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Pollen Cones
Definition
Smaller than seed cones; found on the tip of the branch; shed their pollen, and then fall of the tree
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Examples of CONIFERALES
Definition
Pines, Spruce, Firs, Seqouias, most are Evergreens
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Gnetophytes
Definition
Grow in deserts
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Subclasses of Angiosperms
Definition
1) Monocotyledonae
2) Dicotyledonae
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Cotyledon
Definition
the seed leaf; food resevoir
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Vegetative Organs of Plants
Definition
1) Roots
2) Stems
3) Leaves
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ROOTS
Definition
:Anchors plant
:Absorbs water/minerals
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STEMS
Definition
:conducts water/minerals up
:Conducts food down to roots
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LEAVES
Definition
:center of photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration
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Transpiration
Definition
process to get rid of extra water
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Reproductive Organ of Plants
Definition
Flowers
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General Charecteristics of TRACHEOPHYTES
Definition
1) Have vascular tissue
2) Probably evolved from algae
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STRUCTURE of Ferns
Definition
1) Rhizomes
2) Frond
3) Sori(Sorus)
-1- Sporangium
Term
Rhizome
Definition
the underground stem; roots come out
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Frond
Definition
leaves the we observe
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Sori(Sorus)
Definition
reproductive structures of the fern
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REPRODUCTION of Ferns
Definition
:needs water for the fertilization process, whcih is why ferns are in moist areas
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Prothallus
Definition
the tiny, heart shaped gametophyte the develops from the spore of the fern
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CLUB MOSSES and HORSETAILS
Definition
:have life cycle like a fern
:the sporophyte generation is prominent
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CLUB MOSSES and HORSETAILS
Definition
:have life cycle like a fern
:the sporophyte generation is prominent
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