Question

how are plants classified?

Answer 1

Depends on the plant. Are you looking for information about specific types of plants or just a general definition of what a plant IS?

Answer 2

the subjet say's on my paper- What are characteristics of plats?
the Question- how are plants classified.
i guess all of them idk
what do u think?

Answer 3

typing lots lol

Answer 4

Plants are organisms which belong to the plant kingdom. Commonly multicellular, plants produce energy to grow and reproduce by converting light energy radiated from the sun into food through the process of photosynthesis.

Plants can be classified as either vascular or nonvascular. Vascular plants have a specialized conductive system known as vascular bundles, a group of specialized cells made up of xylem and phloem. Nonvascular plants lack these conducting tissues.

Answer 5

In my botany class last semester, plants were defined as eukaryotes that contain chloroplasts and derive nutrition from photosynthesis. They are NOT a monophyletic group: there's the kingdom Plantae containing land plants as well as some algae (Chlorophyta, Charophyta)... and then there are other types of algae (e.g. Phaeophyta -- brown algae) and various single-celled organisms that also fit the definition but are only very distantly related to the plants in Plantae.

Oh, and they don't fit the definition above (since they're Prokaryotes), but Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are often lumped in with plants. They are probably the ancestors of chloroplasts.

Disclaimer: I'm studying in Germany, and Germans take their botany very seriously. Some definitions may be slightly different/more precise than those used by the English-speaking world.

Answer 6

in from Germany