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angiosperms - ANSWER refers to all flowering seed plants, which produce seeds that are covered by fruit monocots - ANSWER plants with only one cotyledon per seed; parallel veins, flower petals in multiples of 3, fibrous root system pulmonary - ANSWER these arteries carry blood from the heart to the lungs ventricles - ANSWER thick-walled chambers of the heart that pump blood out of the heart and to the body coronary arteries - ANSWER arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood systole - ANSWER the contracting and pumping phase of heart action liver - ANSWER organ known as the "chemical factory of the body" alveoli - ANSWER tiny air sacs in the lungs that allow gases to be exchanged between the air and the blood diaphragm - ANSWER a thick sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and functions in respiration retina - ANSWER inner layer of the eye that detects light and produces nerve impulses cochlea - ANSWER snail-shaped structure of the inner ear that senses sound vibrations and generates nerve impulses