Vascular and Nonvascular Plants Worksheet PDF Form

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So far throughout this series, we’ve  been using the word “plant” to refer   to essentially any living organism that carries  out photosynthesis. But I’m sure we can all agree   that there’s a world of difference between  various photosynthetic organisms like algae,   mosses, grasses, and trees. So how do we organize  and classify plants? If we start at the beginning   of the evolutionary history of plants, we can  look at algae. Algae is a term we use to describe   a large group of photosynthetic organisms that  are not actually all related to one another.   Many organisms that are sometimes referred  to as algae, like cyanobacteria and diatoms,   don’t really resemble the things we normally  think of as plants. In fact, cyanobacteria   don’t qualify as plants at all, because  they’re unicellular prokaryotes, where plants   are multicellular eukaryotes. Similarly, diatoms,  like other protists, although they are eukaryotic,   are also unic