Across
- 2. green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
- 3. network of underground roots and other plant structures found below ground level
- 6. primary functions are anchorage of the plant, absorption of water and dissolved minerals and conduction of these to the stem, and storage of reserve foods
- 7. most abundant gas in atmosphere
- 8. water-impervious protective layer covering the epidermal cells of leaves and other parts and limiting water loss
- 11. embryonic stage of the plant life cycle
- 13. all the other tissue in a plant that isn't dermal tissue or vascular tissue
- 14. comprised of the xylem and the phloem, the main transport systems of plants
- 15. a simple, low-growing, nonflowering plant that lacks specialized conducting channels for transporting water and nutrients
- 17. the outer protective layer of the primary plant body
- 18. most abundant group of seedless vascular plants
Down
- 1. oldest known plant to have a stem with vascular tissue
- 4. a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus
- 5. What did the flower study in college?
- 9. conducts water, minerals, and food to other parts of the plant; it may also store food, and green stems themselves produce food
- 10. a plant having a specialized conducting system that includes xylem and phloem
- 12. Part of a plant which grows above the soil
- 16. any usually flattened green outgrowth from the stem of a vascular plant