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Viridiplantae: Green Plants Overview

Plants are eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms that form the kingdom Plantae. They are defined as green algae and land plants including flowering plants, conifers, ferns and mosses. Historically plants also included fungi and algae but modern definitions exclude these. Green plants have cell walls containing cellulose and get their energy from sunlight through photosynthesis using chloroplasts containing chlorophyll a and b.

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Viridiplantae: Green Plants Overview

Plants are eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms that form the kingdom Plantae. They are defined as green algae and land plants including flowering plants, conifers, ferns and mosses. Historically plants also included fungi and algae but modern definitions exclude these. Green plants have cell walls containing cellulose and get their energy from sunlight through photosynthesis using chloroplasts containing chlorophyll a and b.

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Plants are mainly multicellular,

predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of


the kingdom Plantae.

The term is today generally limited to the green


plants, which form an
unranked clade Viridiplantae (Latin for "green
plants"). This includes the flowering
plants, conifers and
other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, li
verworts, mosses and the green algae, and
excludes the red and brown algae. Historically,
plants formed one of two kingdoms covering all
living things that were not animals, and
both algae and fungi were treated as plants;
however all current definitions of "plant" exclude the
fungi and some algae, as well as
the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria).

Green plants have cell walls with cellulose and


obtain most of their energy
from sunlight via photosynthesis by
primary chloroplasts, derived
from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their
chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which
gives them their green color. Some plants
are parasitic and have lost the ability to produce
normal amounts of chlorophyll or to
photosynthesize. Plants are characterized by sexual
reproduction and alternation of generations,
although asexual reproduction is also common.

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