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Plant Physiology
Plant Physiology
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
04/14/2011

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Angiosperm
Definition
a flowering vascular plant that produces seeds within mature ovaries (fruits). 
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Gymnosperm
Definition
A vascular plant that makes seeds but does not produce flowers. Includes four lineages of green plants (cycads, ginkgoes, conifers and gnetophytes)
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dicot
Definition
Any plant that has two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) upon germination. 
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monocot
Definition
Any plant that has a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) upon germination; form a monophyletic group.
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Monophyletic group 
Definition
An evolutionary unit that includes an ancestral population and all of its descendants but no others. 
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