Kingdom Plantae

• Kingdom Plantae

  • Eukaryotic, multicellular
  • Can manufacture their own food through photosynthesis
• Cuticle

  • Covers their leaves and stem and limits the evaporation of water.
• Stomata

  • Open to allow gas exchange.
• Xylem

  • Transport water and minerals.
• Phloem

  • Transport the photosynthesis products from the leaves to the rest of the plant body.
• Bryophytes

  • Are non-vascular plants.
  • No vascular tissues (xylem and phloem).
  • For transporting water and minerals throughout the plant's body.

  EXAMPLE: Mosses, Liverwarts
• Gymnosperm

  • Vascular plants, non-flowering seed plants.

  EXAMPLE: Pine tree
• Fern

  • Seedless, vascular plants have spores underneath the leaves.
• Angiosperms

  • vascular plants, produce flowers, reproduce sexually by producing flowers and seeds within fruits.
• Paleodicot - neither monocot or dicot.