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| Plants that grow year after year |
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| Plants that live for only one year |
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| Plants that live for two years |
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| The parts of a plant (such as stems, roots, and leaves) that are not involved in reproduction |
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| Reproductive plant organs |
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| The parts of a plant (such as flowers, fruits, and seeds) involved in reproduction |
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| Cells that have not specialized in any particular function |
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| Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves |
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| Living vascular tissue that carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant |
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| The arrangement of leaves on the stem of a plant |
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| A plant that loses its leaves for winter |
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| The process of cutting away a ring of inner and outer bark all the way around a tree trunk |
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| Alternation of generations |
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| A life cycle in which there is both a muticellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form |
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| In alternation of generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of the life cycle |
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| A fine dust that contains the sperm of seed-producing plants |
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| A "seed leaf" which develops as a part of the seed. It provides nutrients to the developing seedling and eventually becomes the first leaf of the plant |
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| The characteristics of the leaf edge |
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