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The Plant Kingdom
chapter 13 of
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Biology
9th Grade
03/10/2011

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Term
the study of plants
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Botany
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Eukaryotic; multicellular; has tissues; most have organs; most have chlorophyll and other pigments in plastids; cell walls made of cellulose; most sessile, some float; most autotrophic w/ food stored as starch, some parasitic; reproduce sexually, many also w/ asexual forms of reproduction; sexual reproduction involves alternation b/w haploid and diploid generations.
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Kingdom Plantae
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Tisse that conducts water & dissolves materials in a plant
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Vascular Tissue
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A mature plant ovul that consists of emryo and stored food enclosed by a coat
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seed
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A plant that grows from a seed, produces more seeds, & dies during one growing season or w/i one year
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Annual
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A plant that sprouts and grows in one season but doesn't flower and produce seeds until the following growing season
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Biennial
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A plant that lives for many years
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Peremnial
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Mosses; lack vascular tissues; small plants; no true leaves, roots, or stems; gametophyte plant dominant; sporophyte is a parasite on the gametophyte; most habitats
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Phylum Bryophyta
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A stems and leafe like arrangement that lacks water-conduction tissues
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Leafy shoot
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A rootlike structure that lacks water conduction tissues
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Rhizoid
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The stage that produces gametes in the life cycle of a plant
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Gametophyte
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The reproductive structure that produces sperm in certain algae, fungi, and non-vascular plants
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Antheridia
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Female reproductiove structures in algae, fungi, and some plants
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Archegonia
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An individual of the plant generation that produces spores
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Sporophyte
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A branched filamentous structure in the asexual reproducion of mosses
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Protonema
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The reproductive cycle in which the asexual reproductive stages give rise to sexual reproductive stages that, in turn, give rise to asexual reproductive stages.
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alternation of Generation
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The stage that is most often seen in the life cycle of a plant
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Dominant Generation
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lacks vacular tissues; lobeshaped plants; gametophyte-> dominant generation; water required for reproduction
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Phlum Hepatophya
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Characteristics similar to liverworts; named for horn-shaped dominant sporophyte generation
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Phylum Anthocerophyta
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