Plants Crossword

Includes mosses
Lack vessels for conducting water and food throught the plant
Green, nutritionally independent of sporophyte
Produces sperm
Conducts water from roots to leaves
First appeared in fossil record about 425 million years ago
Fruits have foul odor
The male part of the flower
Begins formation of pollen tube that extends into style
Found mostly in dicots, one thick vertical root with many lateral roots that emanate from it
Outer layer of root made of epidermal cells from whixh root hairs extend out the soil root hair provide a large surface area for the cells to absorb enough water to support entire plant
Area where cells are growing and maturing
Complex mixture of sand, silt, clay, air and bits of decaying animal and plant tissues
Require water for fertilization
Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and calcium
Vascular bundles scattered around the stem, ground tissue between the bundles
Secondary growth increase in width of the stem to support the growing plants
Main organs of photosynthesis
Loss of water through leaves, loss of water is replaced by water drawn into the leaf through xylem vessels
Just under the epidermis, absorb light that enters the leaf