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Essay on diversity in plants

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Diversity of Plants Plants evolved more than 430 million years ago from multi cellular green algae. By 300 million years ago, trees had evolved and formed forests, within which the diversification of vertebrates, insects, and fungi occurred. Roughly 266,000 species of plants are now living. The two major groups of plants are the bryophytes and the vascular plants ;the latter group consists of nine divisions that have living members. Bryophytes and ferns require free water so that sperm can swim between the male and female sex organs ;most other plants do not. Vascular plants have elaborate water- and food conducting strands of cells, cuticles, and stomata ;many of these plants are much larger that any bryophyte. Seeds evolved between the vascular plants and provided a means to protect young individuals. Flowers, which are the most obvious characteristic of angiosperms, guide the activities of insects and other pollinators so that pollen is dispersed rapidly and precisely from one flower to another of The same species, thus promoting out crossing. Many angiosperms display other modes of pollination, including self-pollination. Evolutionary Origin Plants derived from an aquatic ancestor, but the evolution of their conducting tissues, cuticle, stomata, and seeds has made them progressively less dependent on water. The oldest plant fossils date from the Silurian Period, some 430 million years ago. The common ancestor of plants was a green alga. The similarity of the members of these two groups can be demonstrated by their photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll a and b,) carotenoids) ;chief storage product (starch) ;cellulose-rich cell walls (in some green algae only) ;and cell division by means of a cell plate (in certain green algae only).

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Answer 2

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Plants are the silent workers of our planet, they want to live and also help others (animals including human beings) to live. They have well-developed metabolic system, which includes both anabolism (synthesis) and catabolism (break­down). On the other hand, animals have only catabolic system.

Anabolic system, like photo­synthesis, is present in most of the plants and catabolic system, like respiration, is present in all plants. Photosynthesis is dependent on light, but the respiration occurs both day and night (throughout their life period). Photosynthesis requires CO2, water, chlorophyll and light. Plants can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and also utilize the CO2 produced from its own respira­tion.