What is a Plant?

Plant Characteristics All Plants are in the Plant Kingdom All plants have cells that contain a cell wall – Act as a plants skeleton to hold plant upright All plants can do Photosynthesis – Allows plants to make their own food – Plants are known as producers

Four Groups of Plants Group #1 Nonvascular plants – Plants that do not have specialized tissues (roots, stems, leaves) to move water and nutrients through themselves – These types of plants depend on diffusion to move materials from one part of the plant to another – These plants tend to be small – Examples would be mosses and liverworts

Vascular Plants – 3 Groups Plants that have specialized tissues (roots, stems, leaves)to move materials from one part of a plant to another. Tissues known as xylem and phloem. Group #1 – Seedless vascular plants have no seeds Group #2 – Gymnosperms – A group of vascular plants that are nonflowering seed plants Group #3 – Angiosperms – A group of vascular plants that are flowering seed plants