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What is the process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches?

What is the green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis?

What is the carbohydrate component of plant cell walls?

What is an organism that makes its own food called?

What is the process that releases energy from food in the presence of oxygen?

What are plants with no tubes to transport materials called?

What is a small, herbaceous, nonvascular plant that is a member of the phylum Bryophyta?

What are mosses, liverworts, or hornworts collectively known as?

What are plants with tubes to transport materials called?

What is the specialized tissue in plants that carries water and nutrients?

What is the nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves?

What is the vascular tissue through which food moves in some plants?

What are plants such as ferns that have spores for reproduction called?

What are plants that produce seeds for reproduction called?

What is the group of seed plants that bear their seeds directly on the scales of cones called?

What are gymnosperms such as evergreens that release seeds in a cone called?

What is a flowering plant which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary?

What is the group of true vascular plants that produce flowers and pollen, with seeds protected by fruits and nuts?

What are angiosperms that have only one seed leaf called?

What is a flowering plant whose embryos have two cotyledons called?

What term describes something that occurs every year?

What term describes something that happens every two years?

What term describes something that lasts for a long time, persistent, or a plant that lives for many years?

What are hard, rigid stems in plants called?

What are stems that are soft, thin, and flexible called?

What are the reproductive parts of a flower, including the stamen and pistil?

What is a modified leaf of a flowering plant, often colorful, that advertises it to insects and other pollinators?

What is a modified leaf in angiosperms that helps enclose and protect a flower bud before it opens?

What is the male reproductive organ of a flower called?

What is the part of a stamen that contains the pollen?

What is the stalk of a stamen called?

What is the female part of the flower that consists of a stigma, style, and ovary?

What is the sticky portion at the top of the style where pollen grains land?

What is the stalk of a flower's carpel, with the ovary at the base and the stigma at the top?

What is a flower structure that encloses and protects ovules and seeds as they develop?

What is a structure that develops within the ovary of a seed plant and contains the female gametophyte?

What are the tiny granules that contain the male gametophyte of seed plants?

What is the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma called?

What is an insect or other animal that transfers pollen from one plant to another called?

What is the process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell?

What is the slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain that penetrates the ovule and releases male gametes?

What are the major sites of photosynthesis in most plants?

What is the waxy, waterproof layer that covers the leaves and stems of most plants?

What is the single layer of cells on the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf that do not contain chloroplasts?

What is the loose tissue beneath the palisade layer of a leaf that has many air spaces between its cells?

What is the layer of cells under the upper epidermis of a leaf?

What are the two cells that flank the stomatal pore and regulate the opening and closing of the pore?

What are the small openings on the undersides of most leaves through which oxygen and carbon dioxide can move?

What is the structure in a plant that contains xylem tissue and phloem tissue?

What is the evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant called?

What is the underground organ in plants that absorbs water and minerals?

What is a root system made up of many threadlike members of more or less equal length called?

What is the primary root found in some plants that grows longer and thicker than other roots?

What is a vascular plant organ consisting of an alternating system of nodes and internodes that support the leaves and reproductive structures?

What are the three main types of plant tissues?

What does the term 'dermal' relate to in plants?

What is the tissue found between the vascular and dermal tissue in plants?

Why are leaves important in relation to plants and cells?

What is the type of plant growth that occurs at the tips of roots and shoots?

What is the pattern of plant growth in which stems increase in width?

What is the period of time during which a plant embryo is alive but not growing called?

What is the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow?

What is a growth response of a plant toward or away from a stimulus called?

What is the growth of a plant shoot toward or away from light called?

What is a plant's growth response to water, where the plant grows towards the water?

What is the response to Earth's gravity, as the growing of roots downward in the ground?

What is the directional growth of a plant in response to touch?

Compare and contrast cells in relation to leaf and leaves.

What is a rigid layer of nonliving material that surrounds the cells of plants and some other organisms?

What is an organism whose cells contain a nucleus called?

What is a single-celled organism called?

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