Chpt. 12 vocab

Question 1

Nonvascular plant

Answer 1

The three groups of plants that lack specialist conducting tissues and true roots, stems, leaves.

Question 2

vascular plant

Answer 2

A plant that has specialized tissues that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another

Question 3

Gymnosperm

Answer 3

A woody, vascular seed who seeds are not enclosed by ovary or fruit

Question 4

Angiosperm

Answer 4

A flowering plant that produces seeds with a fruit

Question 5

Rhizoid

Answer 5

A root like structure in nonvascular plants that holds the plants in place and helps plants get water and nutrients.

Question 6

Rhizome

Answer 6

A horizontal, underground system that produces new leaves, shoots, and roots

Question 7

Pollen

Answer 7

The tiny granules that contain the male gametophyte of seed plants.

Question 8

Pollination

Answer 8

The transfer of pollen from the male reproductive structures to the female structures of seed plants

Question 9

Xylem

Answer 9

The type of tissue in vascular plants that provides support and conducts water in nutrients from the roots

Question 10

Phloem

Answer 10

The tissue that conducts food in vascular plants

Question 11

Sepal

Answer 11

In a flower,one out of the outermost rings of modified leaves that protect the flower bud

Question 12

Petal

Answer 12

One of the ring or rings of the usually colored, leaf shaped parts of a flower

Question 13

Stamen

Answer 13

The male reproductive structure of a flower that produces seeds and consists of an anther at the tip of a filament

Question 14

Pistil

Answer 14

The female reproductive part of a flower that produces seeds and consists of an ovary,sale and stigma

Question 15

Ovary

Answer 15

In flowering plants, the lower part of a pistil that produces eggs in ovules.