Plant Taxonomy

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  1. 1. | Nitrogenous food reserve unique to cyanobacteria
  2. 3. | Pollination syndrome involving bright colors and abundant nectar
  3. 4. | Major plant tissue absent in all bryophytes
  4. 6. | Protective covering over moss capsule
  5. 9. | Multinucleate flowing mass of plasmodial slime molds
  6. 12. | Type of sperm requiring water for fertilization
  7. 13. | Algal group with haptonema aiding in food capture
  8. 16. | Threadlike stage formed during moss spore germination
  9. 17. | Anchorage structures that lack vascular tissue
  10. 19. | Library of preserved plant specimens
  11. 20. | Angiosperm process producing both zygote and endosperm
  12. 21. | Feature that qualifies bryophytes as embryophytes
  13. 22. | Collective mass of fungal hyphae
  14. 23. | Teeth-like structure controlling moss spore release
  15. 24. | Bacterial genetic exchange requiring direct cell-to-cell contact via pili
  16. 29. | Opening in the ovule integument allowing pollen entry
  17. 31. | Gymnosperm reproductive structure bearing naked seeds
  18. 32. | Structure in which basidiospores are produced
  19. 33. | Property of peat moss allowing water retention
  20. 34. | Symbiotic relationship between fungus and alga or cyanobacterium
  21. 35. | Ribbonlike structures on horsetail spores
  22. 36. | Lichen growth form tightly attached to surfaces
  23. 38. | Young fern frond before it uncoils
  24. 40. | Simplest living vascular plants lacking true roots and leaves
  25. 41. | Protective secretory structure in pine tissues
  26. 44. | Mutualistic fungal association essential for pine roots
  27. 46. | Water-conducting tissue that defines vascular plants
  28. 47. | Photosynthetic bacteria that do not release oxygen
  29. 48. | Coenocytic fungal phylum that includes bread molds
  30. 50. | Hornlike sporophyte growth region in hornworts
  31. 52. | Thickened ring that launches fern spores
  32. 56. | Ovary position located below other floral parts
  33. 57. | Nourishing tissue developing before fertilization in gymnosperms
  34. 60. | Filamentous green alga that reproduces sexually by conjugation
  35. 61. | Green algal group most closely resembling ancestors of land plants
  36. 62. | Two-nuclei-per-cell condition in club fungi
  37. 63. | Dominant life-cycle stage in mosses
  38. 64. | Disease-causing particle smaller than a virus and lacking a protein coat
  39. 65. | Bryophyte group commonly hosting cyanobacteria
  40. 66. | Disease caused by ingestion of ergot-infected grain
  41. 67. | Photosynthetic prokaryotic group producing oxygen and possessing chlorophyll a
  42. 68. | Brown algal pigment responsible for golden coloration
Down
  1. 1. | Green algal phylum sharing pigments starch and cell plates with land plants
  2. 2. | Virus that specifically infects bacterial cells
  3. 5. | Cluster of fern sporangia on fronds
  4. 7. | Bacterial reproduction involving formation of a transverse wall
  5. 8. | Fungal group lacking a known sexual stage
  6. 10. | Nitrogen-fixing structures where cyanobacterial filaments may fragment
  7. 11. | Asexual reproductive structures of Marchantia
  8. 12. | Storage compound of red algae
  9. 14. | Asexual spores produced externally by many fungi
  10. 15. | Only gymnosperms with vessel elements
  11. 18. | Asexual dispersal unit of lichens containing both symbionts
  12. 25. | Water molds with coenocytic mycelia and zoospores
  13. 26. | Sexual spore-producing structure of sac fungi
  14. 27. | Photosynthetic organisms with glassy silica shells
  15. 28. | Protists with no confirmed sexual reproduction
  16. 30. | Geographic regions where crops were first domesticated
  17. 37. | Central canals in horsetail stems
  18. 39. | Small leaflike outgrowths on whisk ferns
  19. 42. | Seedless vascular plants that are heterosporous
  20. 43. | Protein produced by animal cells that interferes with viral replication
  21. 45. | Primary fungal cell wall component
  22. 49. | Prokaryotic domain containing methane-producing organisms
  23. 51. | Photosynthetic protist that stores paramylon instead of starch
  24. 53. | Extra vestigial nucleus found in cryptomonads
  25. 54. | Phylum that includes all flowering plants
  26. 55. | Heart-shaped fern gametophyte
  27. 58. | Gymnosperm phylum with motile sperm
  28. 59. | Mineral deposited in horsetail epidermis