AP BIOLOGY

PLANTS

CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are the three major categories of plants?
A
nonvascular plants
B
seedless vascular plants
C
seeded vascular plants
D
super plants
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The vascular plants include all the seed-containing plants, angiosperms (flowering plants), gymnosperms, and the pteridophytes (lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns).

Detailed explanation-2: -The ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants are all vascular plants. Because they possess vascular tissues, these plants have true stems, leaves, and roots.

Detailed explanation-3: -SEED PLANTS: GYMNOSPERMS, ANGIOSPERMS Vascular plants with naked seeds ("gymnosperms") are placed in five or more phyla (divisions): seed ferns (Pteridospermophyta), cycads (Cycadophyta), ginkgos (Ginkgophyta), conifers (Coniferophyta), and Gnetophyta. Angiosperms (flowering plants) have seeds enclosed in an ovary.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). Scientific names for the group include Tracheophyta, Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato.

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