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Plants and Their Environment
Plants
• Living eukaryotic organisms
• Chlorophyll
• Manufacture their own food
– Autotroph/Producer
• Cell walls
– Support the cell and whole structure
Plants
• Cannot move when environment changes
• Must be able to;
– Get nutrients
– Reproduce
– Retain moisture
Ways to Group Plants
• Uses
– Fruit, vegetables, shrubs, flowers, turf
• Physiology
– Non vascular or Vascular
– With or without seeds
• Life Cycle
– Annual, seed to production one year
– Biennial, seed to storage in one year
– Perennial, flowers and seeds each year
Perennial
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Herbaceous
Woody
Deciduous
Evergreen
Tender
Hardy
Structure
• Flowers, leaves, fruit, or seed
• Angiosperms
– Flowering
• Gymnosperms
– Cone – bearers
• Mosses and ferns
– Reproduce by spores
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum/Division
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Division Bryophytes
Division Pteridophytes
Subdivision Gymnosperm
Subdivision Angiosperm
Evolution of Plants