Plants and Their Environment

1. Plants and Their Environment

2. Plants • Living eukaryotic organisms • Chlorophyll • Manufacture their own food • Autotroph/Producer • Cell walls • Support the cell and whole structure

3. Plants • Cannot move when environment changes • Must be able to; • Get nutrients • Reproduce • Retain moisture

4. 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

5. Perennial • Herbaceous • Woody • Deciduous • Evergreen • Tender • Hardy

6. Structure • Flowers, leaves, fruit, or seed • Angiosperms • Flowering • Gymnosperms • Cone – bearers • Mosses and ferns • Reproduce by spores

7. Taxonomy Domain Kingdom Phylum/Division Class Order Family Genus Species

9. Division Bryophytes

10. Division Pteridophytes

12. Subdivision Gymnosperm

13. Subdivision Angiosperm

14. Evolution of Plants