Plants

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  1. 3. a plastid in green plant cells which contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.
  2. 5. Seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.
  3. 8. the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean.
  4. 10. The action or process of fertilizing an egg or a female animal or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
Down
  1. 1. a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, which is responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
  2. 2. The transfer of pollen grains from the male anther to the female stigma
  3. 4. a sugary fluid secreted within flowers to encourage pollination by insects and other animals, collected by bees to make into honey.
  4. 6. (in a flower) the part of a pistil that receives the pollen during pollination.
  5. 7. each of the segments of the corolla of a flower, which are modified leaves and are typically coloured.
  6. 9. a rigid layer of polysaccharides lying outside the plasma membrane of the cells of plants, fungi, and bacteria. In the algae and higher plants it consists mainly of cellulose.