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Plantae

A Kingdom of Life

Description

The plantae kingdom consists of multicellular plants unless the plants are parasitic. To recieve energy thses plants use photosynthesis. Many plants live on land with only a few in an aquatic environment. Plants reproduce sexually through meiosis.

3 Main Phyla

  • Bryophyta-
  • This phylum is full of mainly mosses. It is full full of nonflowering plants that has no vascular tissue. Mainly they are found in moist environments. They lack roots, stems, and leaves. Bryophyta's stay in the ground by rhizoids that are like a slim root. By rhizoids the plants recieve nutrients.
  • Hepatophyta-
  • This phylum is made of mainly small plants that grow close to the ground. They have no stomata, roots, stems, leaves, or vascular tissue.
  • Anthocerophyta-
  • This phylum is full of small and flat organisms. They look cylindrical and elongated. Inside of these organisms are a central chloroplast. They also have no vascular tissue, leaves, roots, or stems.

Example Animal

    Liverwort This organisms' comes from the phylum of hepatophyta. The genus name is Marchantia and the species name is polymorpha. Liverworts can be found almost anywhere from cliffs and dry places all the way to swamps and the tudra. At times they also grow on the barks of trees. It gets its nutrients and grows incredably fast. All it needs humidity, low light, to be moist, and nutrition. The nutrition is recieved by filtering in water. With out water it would not be able to survive as well as it needs soil. Some other interesting facts about liverwort is that each liverwort can have as many as 7 million spores in it. After fires it usually is one of the first organisms to grow back. It is also one of the most commonly spread organsm in the world. Shockingly it was also once thought to be a cure for diseases of the liver and tuberculosis because it looked like an animal liver. Even with in very hot climates liverwort can survive for quite a long period of time.

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