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- 5. a flowerless, spore-producing plant - with the spores typically produced in a tapering, horn-like or needle-like capsule which develops from a flattish, green sheet.
- 7. always on trees
- 8. also called tracheophytes or collectively Tracheophyta, form a large group of land plants that have lignified tissues for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.
- 10. the specialised tissue of vascular plants that transports water and nutrients from the plant–soil interface to stems and leaves, and provides mechanical support and storage.
- 11. a class of herbaceous vascular plants
- 13. like mosses, are land plants that do not have a vascular system.
- 14. the vascular tissue that transports carbon (photosynthates) from the leaves to basal parts of the plant,
- 16. is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga.
- 17. a leaf that bears sporangia.
- 18. a liquid needed for plants to live
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- 1. a structure present on many land plant species consisting of sporangia-bearing structures densely aggregated along a stem.
- 2. a genus of fern-like vascular plants. It is one of two genera in the family Psilotaceae
- 3. are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
- 4. also called scouring rush, fifteen species of rushlike conspicuously jointed perennial herbs, the only living genus of plants in the order Equisetales and the class Equisetopsida.
- 6. is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers
- 9. when broadly circumscribed, are a vascular plant subgroup of the kingdom Plantae.
- 12. a colorful plant with petals
- 15. a cell that certain fungi, plants (moss, ferns), and bacteria produce
- 17. plants cant live without it