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Essay Galaxy - Plants
Plants
Plant, any member of the plant kingdom, comprising about 260,000
known species of mosses, liverworts, ferns, herbaceous and woody plants,
bushes, vines, trees, and various other forms that mantle the earth and are
also found in its waters. Plants range in size and complexity from small,
nonvascular mosses, which depend on direct contact with surface water, to
giant redwood trees, the largest living organisms, which can draw water and
minerals through their vascular systems to elevations of more than 100 m
(more than 330 ft).
Only a tiny percentage of plant species are directly used by humans
for food, shelter, fiber, and drugs. At the head of the list are rice,
wheat, corn, legumes, cotton, conifers, and tobacco, on which whole
economies and nations depend. Of even greater importance to humans are the
indirect benefits reaped from the entire pl....
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