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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plant Taxonomy

All About Plants...
Tejas Katkar

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Also known as flowering plants, angiosperms, appeared around 140 million years ago. The sunflower, an angiosperm, follows the sun’s path i.e moves from east to west.
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In Cycads and Ginkgo, the gymnosperms, have a seed coating called as the sarcotesta and it has two layers.
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The study of bryophytes is termed as bryology, and the person who studies bryophytes is called bryologist.

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The six commonly accepted kingdoms are: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Fungi, Protista, Plants and Animals.
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Latin, even today, is used to name species - a common language of science. The term science is derived the Latin word scientia (means knowledge or experience).
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Gymnosperm literally means “naked seeds”. They neither produce flowers nor fruits. Conifers, cycads, ginkgo, and gnetophytes are the 4 major groups of gymnosperms.
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Carl Linnaeus is known as the 'Father of Taxonomy'. He was the first one to rank, classify, and name the organisms; the system is still relevant and in use today.
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Ferns reproduce via miniature cells called spores. They do not develop flowers and seed.
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Seive tubes, companion cells, phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres are the different elements of phloem.
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The mosses can extract water from the air, and it can grow on almost any surface! The world's tallest self-supporting moss is Dawsonia superba.
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There are about 200 species of Plasmodium. Malaria, a life-threatening disease, is caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium.
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Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, and Cyanobacteria are the three sub-kingdoms of Kingdom Monera. Ernst Haeckel in 1866 was the first one to propose it as a phylum.
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