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Stamen
Male reproductive part of a flower. The structure of a flower that produces its pollen. The male organ of a flower, the male sporophyll, consisting of a stalk (filament) bearing the connective and container(s) (anthers) that bear the pollen. The male organ of a flower, consisting of an anther usually on a filament. One of…
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Sporophyte
The structure in certain plants that produces spores for the nonsexual phase of the alternation of generations. (In pteridophytes) diploid (usually) plant that produces spores. The spore-bearing stage of a plant exhibiting alternation of generations.
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Sere
A series of ecological communities formed in ecological succession.
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Pistil
Female reproductive part of a flower. (In apocarpous flowers) the unit of separate carpel, style and stigma (Bell, 2008, Hickey & King, 2000); (In syncarpous flowers) the whole gynoecium (Bell, 2008, Hickey & King, 2000); The female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style and stigma (Jackson, 1928). The female organ of…
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Photosynthesis
The process by which green plants transform light energy into chemical energy. The process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar; occurs in plants and some algae. The synthesis (production) of bioorganic compounds (molecules) using light energy as the power source. The synthesis of carbohydrates (hexose) occurs…
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Meiosis
The process by which a gamete, or sex cell, divides; the resulting cells have half the number of chromosomes. A special method of cell division, occurring in maturation of the germ cells, by means of which each daughter nucleus receives half the number of chromosomes characteristic of the somatic cells of the species. Discovered by…
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Gemma
An asexual reproductive body that becomes detached from the parent plant and can develop into a new plant. Adventitious bud on a fern frond (on a stipe or in a pinna axil) that can develop into a plant. Adventitious bud on a frond that can develop into a new plant. A small budlike reproductive structure…
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Gametophyte
The structure in certain plants that produces gametes for the sexual phase of the alternation of generations. The generation that bears the sexual organs in seed plants, pteridophytes and mosses. The stage of a plant that forms the sexual organs in seed plants, ferns, lycopods and mosses; in seed plants, this stage is dependent on…
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Gamete
A mature sex cell that is capable of uniting with a gamete of the opposite sex to begin the formation of a new individual. Unisexual body, unable to give rise to an individual plant until joined with another gamete to produce a zygote. A germ or reproductive cell. In animals (and humans) the functional, mature,…
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Epiphyte
A plant that gets moisture and minerals from the air and rain and that usually grows on another plant. A plant growing on, but not parasitic on, another plant. adj. epiphytic. An air plant, growing on or with other plants but not in any way parasitic. A plant growing non-parasitically upon another. Plant that grows…
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