ScienceForDummies - Week 8: Botany and Plant Classification

 Hello! Today's weekly science post is about Botany and Plant Classification (as won in the poll last week). Let's begin!

All plants are under the Kingdom Plantae. Kingdoms. in biology and taxonomy is the second highest taxonomic rank - the first being domain. There are only three domains as we said before - Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. Under those three domains are smaller classificatinons called kingdoms.

The kingdom Plantae is a Eukaryotic kingdom, under the domain of Eucarya. There are five main kingdoms of the Eukaryotic domain: Protozoa, Chromista (the first two are microogranisms), and Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia. 

So Plantae is:

Life -> Domain: Eukaryota -> Kingdom: Plantae

That's just the plant kingdom, but we haven't even focused on the classifications of plants. The Kingdom Plantae can only be divided into two large sections: seed growing and non seed growing,. Angiosperms are one of the seed growing subgroups, and they have flowers, generally near the plant tops, as reproductive organs. Flowers vary in color and they are either cross-pollinating or self-pollinating. Cross pollinating flowers mean they pollinate (a process in flowering plants to reproduce) with other flowers usually with a pollinating agents (animals or the wind). Self pollinating flowers have both genders in one flower. Fruits are the product of flowers, they surround the seeds that are produced after pollination. Gymnosperms also grow seeds but do not have flowers, their seeds are just exposed or "naked".

Non-seed growing plants include mosses, ferns, and hornworts. These plants do not have seeds but rather reproduce with spores, special cells which will finally grow once in favorable conditions and in a right locstion. Algae also fall under the non seed growing plants, but they are aquatic plants.

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