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Nonvascular Plants – Plants without vascular tissue

Nucleus – Part of the cell that controls the cell’s functions

Organism – Living thing

Parasitism – Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the
other is harmed

Peptidoglycan – Mixture of sugars and amino acids that make up the cell call
of bacteria

Phloem – Vascular tissue that carries sugars

Photosynthesis – Process in which plants convert sunlight into the energy
they need to survive

Pollen – The male gametophyte in angiosperms

Prokaryote – Cell without a nucleus

Protozoa – Animal-like protists

Pseudopodia – False foot used by some protists to move

Self-Pollination – Method of reproduction in angiosperms where the pollen
from a plant goes into the stigma of the same plant

Sepals – Outside layer of a flower that covers it before it opens

Sexual Reproduction – Reproduction requiring two parents

Spirilli – Bacteria shaped like spirals

Spores – Haploid cells that divide to form the gametophyte

Sporophyte – Diploid generation that produces spores

Stigma – Female part of a flower

Symbiotic – Long-term relationship between two organisms

Thermophile – Archaea that live in extremely hot environments

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