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Botany
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The study of plants
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Perennial
plants
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Plants that grow year after
year
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Annual
plants
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Plants that live for only
one year
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Biennial
plants
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Plants that live for two
years
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Vegetative
organs
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The parts of the 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 the plant
(such as flowers, fruits, and seeds) involved in reproduction
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Undifferentiated
cells
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Cells that have not
specialized in any particular function
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Xylem
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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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Phloem
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Living vascular tissue that
carries sugar and organic substances throughout a plant
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Leaf
mosaic
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The arrangement of leaves
on the stem of a plant
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Leaf
margin
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The characteristics of the
leafs edge
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Deciduous
plant
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A plant that loses its
leaves for winter
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Girdling
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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 multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form
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Dominant
generation
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In alteration of
generations, the generation that occupies the largest portion of life cycle
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