AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -While there are many ways to structure plant classification, one way is to group them into vascular and non-vascular plants, seed bearing and spore bearing, and angiosperms and gymnosperms. Plants can also be classified as grasses, herbaceous plants, woody shrubs, and trees.

Detailed explanation-2: -Today is the 290th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world’s plants and animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Among all plant species, the members of the Phylum Bryophyta are considered the simplest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Botanists have found that the most generally useful way to classify plants is to consider several different characteristics, making groups of those plants that are alike in lots of characteristics. Their classification system is so useful that it is used by people in many different kinds of work.