Quick Vocabulary Lesson 1 Lesson 2 cellulose

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Date
Class
Quick Vocabulary
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
cellulose organic compound made
frond leaf of a fern
of chains of glucose molecules
cuticle waxy, protective layer that
slows the evaporation of water
from a plant’s surface
producer organism that uses an
osmosis diffusion of water
molecules
rhizoid structure that anchors a
nonvascular seedless plant to a
surface
outside energy source, such as the
Sun, to make its own food
transport to carry somebody or
something
vascular tissue composed of tubelike
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cells that transport water and
nutrients in some plants
Plant Diversity
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Name
Date
Class
Quick Vocabulary
Lesson 3
cambium layer of plant tissue that
produces new vascular tissue and
grows between xylem and phloem
phloem plant vascular tissue that
carries dissolved sugars throughout
a plant
stoma small opening in the
epidermis of a leaf
tissue group of cells in an organism
xylem plant vascular tissue that
carries water and dissolved
nutrients from the roots to the
stem and the leaves
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