Plants

 Flowering and Non-flowering plants

Flowering plants

Flowering plants  are the plants that grows flowers and use seeds to reproduce, or make more plants like them. Nonflowering plants do not grow flowers, and use either seeds or spores, which are very tiny parts of a plant that can be used to reproduce, to grow more plants just like them.

There are three primary kinds of flowers: Annuals, Perennials, and Biennials. In addition, the fourth type of flower behaves in annuals and perennials like a hybrid. Also there are two more kinds of flowers namely shrub flowers and tree flowers.

 


The picture above  shows  some of the examples  of annual  plants

Non-flowering Plants

Non-flowering plants ,are the plants that do not produce seeds, fruits or flowers. They usually reproduce through spores. They include the cryptogams and the gymnosperms. However, gymnosperms are a seed-bearing group of plants. They have unenclosed or naked seeds that often produce cones. Examples – Ginkgo etc.

Below is an example  of a Non-flowering  plant
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The life cycle of a flowering plant

Many plants can reproduce either sexually or asexually. Flowers allow for genetic diversity. Just like us humans, flowering plants have sperm and eggs. Unlike us, flowering plants can have sperm and eggs produced in the same organ. But flowering plants do not have to reproduce sexually. For example, a strawberry plant can make flowers and fruit (via sexual reproduction) or send out a runner (via asexual reproduction).

Angiosperms (flowering plants) have two alternative life cycles because they undergo sexual and asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction creates a clone of the original plant. The advantage to asexual reproduction is that an individual plant can propagate the species. Sexual reproduction creates genetic diversity. The seeds produced by sexual reproduction can also help distribute plants to far away areas. 





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