PBIO 1210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lycopodiopsida, Lycopodiophyta, Organic Food

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Plants are mostly photosynthetic organisms that are adapted to life on land. Modern groups of plants are bryophytes (mosses), lycophytes (club mosses), pteridophytes (ferns), gymnosperms (conifers) and owery plants. Bacteria, protists (algae) and fungi are central to the lives of plants and thus are studied along with them. Plants and other living things are known by their scienti c names. Scienti c methods are used to learn about plants and associated organisms. Plants help maintain earth"s atmosphere and climate and are essential to the lives of humans and other animals. Photosynthesis: the production of organic food from inorganic molecules (carbon dioxide and water), with the use of light energy. Parasite: organisms that obtain organic food from other organisms. Fungi: characterized by presence of chitin-containing cell walls, absorptive nutrition, and reproduction n by means of spores; also lacks photosynthesis. Cellulose: material composed of linked sugar units. Bacteria are photosynthetic, and have a much simpler structure than plants.

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