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seed plants - plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/Michael.Gregory/files/Bio%20102/Bio%20102%20lectures/Seed%20Plants/seed%20plants.htm


Flowers - The reproductive structure of some seed-bearing plants, characteristically having either specialized male or female organs or both male and female organs, such as stamens and a pistil, enclosed in an outer envelope of petals and sepals. Such a structure having showy or colorful parts; a blossom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower


Cones - A unisexual reproductive structure of gymnospermous plants such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that develop pollen-bearing sacs or naked ovules or seeds.
http://lovett-pinetum.org/pinecones.htm







Leaves - More than one of the flat green parts growing from the stem of a plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf


seeds - A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.The seed-bearing stage of a plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_stem




roots-The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root



capillary action-The interaction between contacting surfaces of a liquid and a solid that distorts the liquid surface from a planar shape. Also called capillary action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillarity




photosynthesis-The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

diffusion-The process of diffusing or the condition of being diffused





Active Transport - The movement of a chemical substance through a gradient of concentration or electrical potential in the direction opposite to normal diffusion, requiring the expenditure of energy: active transport across a cell membrane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_transport


Transpiration - The act or process of transpiring, especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.
http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/Transpiration.htm


Cellular respiration - The series of metabolic processes by which living cells produce energy through the oxidation of organic substances.
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/biocoach/cellresp/intro.html



Osmosis - Diffusion of fluid through a semipermeable membrane from a solution with a low solute concentration to a solution with a higher solute concentration until there is an equal concentration of fluid on both sides of the membrane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis


Germination - The beginning or the process of development of a spore or seed.


http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/germ6.html

Seed stage - The stage of a plant, when the plant is a seed
http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/seed-stage.htmlseed-stage.html




















Seedling stage - As soon as seedlings sprout, the seedling stage begins.
http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/seedling-stage.html



Adult stage - the stage when a plant matures and has seeds of its own

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118949612/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Pollination - The transfer of pollen from a stamen to a pistil; fertilization in flowering plants.

http://kidsgrowingstrong.net/Pollination.html




Pollen - The fine powderlike material consisting of pollen grains that is produced by the anthers of seed plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen



Ovule - A minute structure in seed plants, containing the embryo sac and surrounded by the nucellus, that develops into a seed after fertilization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovule



Ovary - The usually paired female or hermaphroditic reproductive organ that produces ova and, in vertebrates, estrogen and progesterone. The ovule-bearing lower part of a pistil that ripens into a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovary_(plants)


Pollinators - An agent that transfers pollen from one flower to another, accidentally or intentionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator


Runners - long stems that grow along the soil of the surface and produce new plants

Rhizomes - Horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing the upward shoot and downward root systems of a new plant.

Suckers - A shoot rising from a subterranean root or stem of a plant.