Gymnosperm Vocabulary

4. the organelle of a living cell that contains chromosomes and is essential to the regulation and control of all the cells functions; also the core of an atom
5. A mature ovule containing an embryo and bound by a protective seed coat.
8. solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.
12. division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida. They are gymnosperms, cone-bearing seed plants. All extant conifers are perennial woody plants with secondary growth.
13. phylum that has fan-shaped leaves and fleshy seeds.

1. grain a structure derived from the microspore of seed plants that develops into a male gametophyte
2. Classified with gymnosperms but has angiosperm-like characteristics, such as complex vascular tissue
3. Seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today. They typically have a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. They usually have pinnate leaves. The individual plants are either all male or all female
6. Having unisecual flowers or cones with the male flowers or cones confined to certain plants and the female flowers or cones of the same species confined to different plants.
7. coat the outer boundary layer of a seed; it is developed from the integuments
9. the outermost layer of an ovule; usually develops into a seed coat; a gymnosperm ovule usually has a single integument, and an angiosperm ovule usually has two integuments.
10. a modified leaf that bears a sporangium
11. a plant whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary during their development