chapter 7 plants

2. the tissue in higher plants that constitutes the vascular system, consisting of phloem and xylem, by which water and nutrients are conducted throughout the plant.
3. a type of tissue at the tip of a plant root. It is also called calyptra.
6. the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food
7. also called strobilus, in botany, mass of scales or bracts, usually ovate in shape,
8. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.
10. unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development
13. a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone.
17. each of the parts of the calyx of a flower, enclosing the petals and typically green and leaflike.
18. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.
19. the outer cellular layer of a hair.
20. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.

1. the seed-bearing part of a plant
4. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
5. the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant.
9. makes plants green.
11. is the result of an operation that is meant to remove disease and relieve symptoms
12. a space or vesicle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid
14. is an ensemble of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same origin that together carry out a specific function
15. each of the segments of the corolla of a flower, which are modified leaves and are typically colored.
16. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.