THERE ARE MORE THAN 500,000 SPECIES OF PLANTS.
They show a wide diversity of forms and styles,ranging , for example , from delicate liverworts ,adapted for life in a dump habitat , to cacti, capable of surviving in the desert ,and from herbaceous plants , such as corn which completes its life -cycle in one year ,to the giant red wood tree, which can live for thousands of years .This diversity refelcts the adaptations of plants to survive in a wide range of habitats. This is seen most clearly in the flowering plants , which are the most numerous , with over 250,000 species , and the most wide spread , being found from the tropics to the poles .Despite their diversity , plants share certain characteristics typically , plants are green , and make their food by photosynthesis ; and most plants live in or on a substrate , such as soil , and do not actively move .Algae(kingdom protista)
and fungi (kingdom fungi) have some plants characteristics and are often studied alongside plants , although they are truly not plants.
They show a wide diversity of forms and styles,ranging , for example , from delicate liverworts ,adapted for life in a dump habitat , to cacti, capable of surviving in the desert ,and from herbaceous plants , such as corn which completes its life -cycle in one year ,to the giant red wood tree, which can live for thousands of years .This diversity refelcts the adaptations of plants to survive in a wide range of habitats. This is seen most clearly in the flowering plants , which are the most numerous , with over 250,000 species , and the most wide spread , being found from the tropics to the poles .Despite their diversity , plants share certain characteristics typically , plants are green , and make their food by photosynthesis ; and most plants live in or on a substrate , such as soil , and do not actively move .Algae(kingdom protista)
and fungi (kingdom fungi) have some plants characteristics and are often studied alongside plants , although they are truly not plants.
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