Plant Diversity Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• tracheid : a long, tapered water-conducting cell found in the xylem of nearly all vascular plants
• gametophyte : plants that the multicellular haploid that produces haploid gametes
• rhizoid : a long filament of cells that anchors bryophytes to the ground
• angiosperm : a flowering plant
• root : an organ in a vascular plan that anchors the plant
• xylem : vascular tissue that conducts most of the water and minerals upwards from the roots to the rest of the plant
• bryophyte : nonvascular plant that lives on land, but requires water for reproduction
• sporophyte : plants that the multicellular diploid form that results from the union of gametes
• seed : an embryo packaged with a store of food within a protective coat
• pollengrain : a structure consisting of the male gametophyte enclosed within a pollen wall
• sporangium : a multicellular organ in plants in which meiosis occurs and haploid cells develop
• phloem : vascular plant tissue that transports sugar and other organic nutrients throughout the plant
• gymnosperm : a vascular plant that bears naked seeds
• seedless : _ vascular plant is an informal name for a plant that has vascular tissue but lacks seeds