1. Chapter 2 – Plant Structures and Functions Lesson 1 – Vascular Plants © Brent Coley 2009 | www.mrcoley.com

2. What are vascular plants? Vascular plants have tubes that carry water and nutrients up and down the plant.Vascular plants have tubes that carry water and nutrients up and down the plant. trees grass bushes

3. What are vascular plants? Parts of a vascular plant:Parts of a vascular plant: – roots (anchor plant, take in food & water) – stems (support plant, move materials from roots to leaves) – leaves (make food)

4. What are vascular plants? Two kinds of vascular plants:Two kinds of vascular plants: 1.seedless plants: grow from a spore (a single cell that can develop into a new plant) ferns

5. What are vascular plants? Two kinds of vascular plants:Two kinds of vascular plants: 2.seed plants: make & grow from seeds (seed contains undeveloped plant and stored food in a protective coat) no flowers flowers

6. Two kinds of seed plants:Two kinds of seed plants: 1.angiosperms: produce flowers 2.gymnosperms: do not produce flowers (seeds are produced inside a cone) Classifying Seed Plants

7. What do flowers do? Parts of a flower:Parts of a flower: – stamen (male part that produces pollen grains) – pistil (female part that produces egg cells) – ovary (bottom of pistil; stores egg cells)

8. pistil stamen (yellow tips are pollen grains) ovary (bottom part of pistil) Parts of a Flower

9. Seeds 1.pollination: movement of pollen grains from a stamen to a pistil by wind, insects, or birds 2.Pollen and an egg cell join and form a seed.

10. Seeds 3.Seeds are scattered by wind or animals.

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