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*’eukaryotes’ of the kingdom “plantae”*
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*the term “plant” generally implies the possession of the following traits* –>
‘multi’cellularity’
*possession of ‘cell walls’ containing ‘cellulose’*
*the ability to carry out ‘photo-synthesis’ with ‘primary chloroplasts’*
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*STREPTO-PHYTA*
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*(mainly) ‘multi-cellular’*
(predominantly ‘photosynthetic’
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(the term is today generally limited to the green plants, which form an ‘un-ranked clade’ viridiplantae)
(or ‘latin’ for “green plants”)
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(this includes the ‘flowering plants’, ‘conifers’, and other ‘gymnosperms’, ‘ferns’, ‘clubmosses’, ‘hornworts’, ‘liverworts’, ‘mosses’, and the ‘green algae’, and excludes the ‘red’ and ‘brown’ algae)
(historically, plants formed 1 of 2 kingdoms covering all living things that were not ‘animals’, and both ‘algae’ and ‘fungi’ were treated as plants; however all current definitions of “plant” exclude the ‘fungi’ and some ‘algae’, as well as the ‘prokaryotes’ (the ‘archaea’ and ‘bacteria’))
(‘green plants’ have ‘cell walls’ containing ‘cellulose’ and obtain most of their energy from sunlight via ‘photosynthesis’ by ‘primary chloroplasts’, derived from ‘endosymbiosis’ with ‘cyanobacteria’)
(their ‘chloroplasts’ contain chlorophylls ‘a’ and ‘b’, which gives them their ‘green color’)
(some plants are ‘parasitic’ and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of ‘chlorophyll’ or to ‘photosynthesize’)
(‘plants’ are characterized by ‘sexual reproduction’ and alternation of generations, although ‘asexual reproduction’ is also common)
(there are about 300–315 thousand species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260–290 thousand, are ‘seed plants’)
(‘green plants’ provide most of the world’s molecular oxygen and are the basis of most of earth’s ecologies, especially on land)
(plants that produce ‘grains’, ‘fruits’, and ‘vegetables’ form humankind’s basic foodstuffs, and have been domesticated for millennia)
(‘plants’ play many roles in culture)
(they are used as ‘ornaments’ and, until recently and in great variety, they have served as the source of most ‘medicines’ and ‘drugs’)
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(the ‘scientific study’ of ‘plants’ is known as ‘botany’)
(a branch of ‘biology’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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