Sensory Receptors / Growth & Development of Organisms Vocab

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  1. 4. a nerve ending that senses and responds to stimulus
  2. 6. the first stage of life for flowering plants and some nonflowering plants
  3. 9. a sensory receptor for smell
  4. 13. an organism’s stages of growth and development that lead to the production of offspring
  5. 14. a nerve cell
  6. 15. a watery liquid in the mouth that softens food for swallowing
  7. 16. relating to electric and magnetic fields
  8. 18. an unborn or unhatched organism undergoing the process of growth and development
  9. 19. a photoreceptor in the eye responsible for night vision
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  1. 1. a fiber or bundle of fibers that transmit signals to and from the body, brain, and spinal cord
  2. 2. a photoreceptor in the eye that processes color vision
  3. 3. an involuntary response
  4. 5. the nerve that connects the eye to the brain
  5. 6. a reproductive structure in some nonflowering plants and fungi
  6. 7. an organism that breathes through gills in its larval stage and through lungs in its adult stage
  7. 8. the transfer of pollen from the male to female parts of a plant
  8. 10. the layer at the back of the eye that contains photoreceptors
  9. 11. a sensory receptor that detects sound
  10. 12. the reproductive structure in flowering plants
  11. 17. a group of cells in the mouth that contain sensory receptors for taste