Plants Vocabulary

4. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant
7. the flat cutting edge of a knife, saw, or other tool or weapon
8. a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange between the internal air spaces of the leaf and the atmosphere
10. a plant that is characterized by the presence of conducting tissue
12. a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans
15. a group of land plants
16. a tree that bears cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves that are typically evergreen
17. a solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point

1. each of a pair of curved cells that surround a stoma, becoming larger or smaller
2. the tissue in higher plants that constitutes the vascular system
3. a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel
5. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves
6. the stalk that joins a leaf to a stem; leafstalk.
9. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root
11. an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development
13. the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization
14. blood vessel