ANTHER
FILAMENT
STIGMA
STYLE
Produces pollen in a flower.
Thick stalk of the stamen that
supports the anther.
Sticky tip of the pistil where
pollen falls.
Slender tube in the pistil that
supports the stigma.
CYCAD
GNETOPHYTE
CONIFER
GINKGO
Type of gymnosperm. Looks
like a palm gree with a big pine
cone on top.
Type of gymnosperm. Can be a
tree, shrub, or vine.
Type of gymnosperm. The most
common and diverse. “Cone
bearing”.
Includes pines, firs, sequoias.
Type of gymnosperm. Has
flat,fan-like leaves. Is
dioecious.
CLUB FUNGI
SAC FUNGI
ZYGOTE FUNGI
STAMEN
Mushrooms are included in this
group of fungi. Named based
on the shape of its sporeproducing structures.
Yeasts are included in this
group of fungi.
These fungi have highly
resistant spores. Molds are
included in this group of fungi.
Contains the male reproductive
parts of a flower.
SEPAL
PETAL
COTYLEDON
ANGIOSPERM
Leaflike structures on a flower
that protect developing flowers.
Colorful parts of a flower that
are used to attract pollinators.
A seed leaf; sometimes stores
food
Plants that produce flowers and
have seeds enclosed in fruits.
MONOCOT
DICOT
POLLINATION
FERTILIZATION
Group of angiosperms, which
have one seed leaf.
Flower petals are grouped in
threes or multiples of three.
Have parallel veins.
Group of angiosperms which
have two seed leaves. Flower
petals are grouped in fives or
multiples of five. Have
branched veins.
The transfer of pollen from
male reproductive structures to
female reproductive structures
in plants.
The joining of a sperm cell and
an egg cell.
TRANSPIRATION
TISSUE
STOMATA
SPOROPHYTE
The process by which water is
lost through a plant’s leaves
A group of similar cells that
perform a specific function in
an organism.
The small openings on the
surfaces of most leaves through
which gases can move.
The stage in the life cycle of a
plant in which the plant
produces spores.
SEED
RESPIRATION
POLLEN
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
That plant structure that
contains an embryo and food
inside a protective outer
covering.
The process of breaking down
food to release its energy.
Tiny particles (male
gametophytes) produced by
seed plants that contain the
cells that later become sperm.
The process by which plants
and some other organisms
capture and use light energy to
make sugar and oxygen from
carbon dioxide and water.
LICHEN
GAMETOPHYTE
FUNGUS
FRUITING BODY
The symbiotic relationship
between a fungi and an alga or
autotrophic bacterium.
The stage in the life cycle of a
plant in which the plant
produces gametes, or sex cells.
A eukaryotic organism that has
cell walls, uses spores to
reproduce, and is a heterotroph
that feeds by absorbing food.
The reproductive structures of a
fungus that contains many
hyphae and produce spores.
CONE
CUTICLE
CAMBIUM
CHLOROPLAST
The reproductive structure of
most gymnosperms.
The waxy, waterproof layer that
covers the leaves and stems of
most plants. Reduces
evaporation, or water loss.
A layer of cells in a plant that
produces new phloem and
xylem cells.
A plant cell structure in which
photosynthesis occurs.
FROND
RHIZOID
NONVASCULAR PLANT
ROOTS
The leaves of ferns.
The part of a moss that absorbs
water and nutrients from the
soil.
A low-growing plant that lacks
true vascular tissue. Includes
mosses, liverworts, and
hornworts.
Stores food, absorbs water, and
anchors the plant.
BUDDING
GILLS
OVARY
BOG
Form of asexual reproduction in
yeast in which a new cell grows
out of the body of a parent.
Structures in the caps of
mushrooms where spores can
be found.
A flower structure that encloses
and protects ovules and seeds
as they develop. Becomes the
fruit we eat.
A wetland where sphagnum
moss grows on top of acidic
water.
VASCULAR PLANT
PEAT
STOMATA
SPORANGIA
A plant that has true vascular
tissue, or an internal
transporting tissue for moving
water and nutrients.
Compressed layers of dead
mosses that accumulate in bogs.
Openings on the undersides of
leaves through which gases are
exchanged.
The case or sac in which spores
are produced.
GYMNOSPERM
PHLOEM
CHYTRID
CHLOROPHYLL
Plants with “naked” seeds
The vascular tissue through
which food moves in some
plants.
Unicellular fungus that has
motile spores.
Main pigment found in plants.
HYPHAE
SPORE
CHITIN
PENICILLIN
The branching, threadlike tubes
that make up the bodies of
multicellular fungi.
A tiny cell that is able to grow
into a new organism.
Sustance found in the cell walls
of fngi.
An antibiotic produced by a
fungus that is used to kill
bacteria.
PISTIL
OVULE
Contains the female
reproductive parts of a flower.
A plant structure in seed plants
that produces the female
gametophyte: contains an egg
cell.
XYLEM
FRUIT
The vascular tissue through
The ripened ovary and other
which water and nutrients move structures of an angiosperm that
in some plants.
enclose one or more seeds.