Unit 10 Biology Vocabulary

Broad part of a leaf where most of the photosynthesis of a plant takes place.

Study of plants.

Female structure of flowering plants; made of the ovary, style, and stigma.

Reproductive structure of gymnosperms inside of which the female gamete is fertilized and seeds are produced.

Embryonic leaf inside of a seed.

In plants, a waxy layer that holds in moisture; in insects, a tough exoskeleton made of nonliving material.

Flowering plant whose embryos have two cotyledons.

State of inactivity during which an organism or embryo is not growing.

Tissue within seeds of flowering plants that nourishes an embryo.

Reproductive structure of an angiosperm.