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| life cycle | The events that an organism goes through during its life |
| red alga | type of many-celled alga that has red pigment |
| brown alga | type of many-celled alga that has brown pigment |
| liverwort | tiny non vascular plant with scaly leaflike structures; a type of bryophtye |
| bryophyte | phylum of plants that includes mosses and liverworts |
| alternation of generations | life cycle in which an organism goes through both a sexual stage and an asexual stage |
| vascular tissue | tissue that makes up tubelike structures in plants |
| many-celled alga | simplest of the non-vascular plants; this term applies to 3 plants phyla, many of whose members live in water |
| moss | tiny nonvascular plant that helps build soil; a type of bryophyte |
| vascular plant | plant with vascular tissue that make up tublike structures |
| nonvascular plant | plant without vascular tissue |
| green alga | type of many-celled alga that has only green pigments |
| tracheophyte | phylum of plants that have vascular tissue; includes ferns and seed plants |
| flowering plant | any plant that has flowers adn produces seeds |
| cone-bearing plant | any plants that has cones and produces seeds |
| sorus | spore case in a fern |
| needle | round, pointed leaf of a conifer |
| cotyledon | seed leaf in an angiosperm seed |
| deciduous | plant that loses its leaves in autumn |
| gymnosperm | another name for a cone-bearing plant |
| angiosperm | another name for a flowering plant |
| frond | fern leaf |
| pollination | transfer of pollen grains from male to female reproductive structures |
| ovule | egg-containing structure on each scale of a female cone in conifers |
| fern | seedless vascular plant |
| conifer | most common type of gymnosperm |
| cone | structure found in conifers and made up of many scales in a spiral arrangement |
| evergreen | term for conifers that indicates they keep their leaves throughout the year |
| monocot | any plant with seeds that have one seed leaf |
| dicot | any plant with seeds that have 2 seed leaves |
| pollen grain | structure in which sperm form, produced by male cone |
| sporophyte | spore producing moss plant; grows on female parent |
| sphagnum | type of moss that decomposes into peat and is used in gardens because it holds moisture well |
| gametophyte | male and female moss plants |
| xylem | vascular tissue in plants |
| phloem | vascular tissue in plants |
