Roots
Special organ structured to absorb water and minerals from the soil
Dehiscence
To burst open, releasing spores
Sori
Clusters of sporangia
Sporophytes
Spore bearing leaves
Megaspore
Forms ovule of seed plants
Micro spore
Forms the pollen grains of seed plants
Dormant
No metabolic reactions can take place as water is drawn out of it when seed is formed
Endemic plant
Only grows in one specific geographic area or habitat type
Bio-prospecting
The use of plants to investigate possibilities of developing new medicines
Phylogenenics
Branch of learning that tries to show evolutionary relationships among organisms
Taxon
Group of related organisms
Phylogenic tree/ cladogram
Represents the evolutionary relationships among a set of organisms that arose from a common ancestor
Clade
Group in a cladogram which begins with a node (ancestor) and includes everything more distal to the node
Distal
Away
Rhizoids
Fine outgrowths of the stem
