bio crossword

4. the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
6. short for monocotyledon.
8. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.
11. a female reproductive organ in which ova or eggs are produced, present in humans and other vertebrates as a pair.
12. a small or immature ovum.
13. the informal group name for mosses, liverworts and hornworts.
14. the action or process of making a copy of something.
15. a type of flowering plant characterized by its two cotyledons

1. any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed seed, or ovule
2. a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel
3. 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.
5. the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.
7. a type of water-conducting cell in the xylem which lacks perforations in the cell wall.
9. a receptacle in which asexual spores are formed.
10. a flowering plant's unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another such plant.