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Plant Classification and Reproduction Cornell Notes

What are seeds? A seed contains an undeveloped plant AND it stores nutrients for the young
plant once it starts to grow
Vascular plants reproduce in two different ways with seeds

How do nonvascular Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts reproduce with spores (a cell in a seedless
plants reproduce? plant)

How do vascular plants Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

reproduce?
What is a gymnosperm? A gymnosperm is a classification of vascular plants where the plant produces
from an exposed seed.
They are flowerless and produce cones or seeds.

What are examples of They are flowerless and produce cones or seeds.
gymnosperm plants? Conifer Trees
Gingko Tree
Gumball Tree

What is an angiosperm? An angiosperm is a classification of vascular plants where the plant produces
with a seed inside of a fruit or ovary.
Angiosperms all have flowers but some angiosperms will produce a fruit.
Flowers attract pollinators such as birds, bees and bats.

What are examples of Rose bush

angiosperms? Tulips
Apple trees
Sunflowers
Cacti
Oak Tree
Blueberry bush

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