Plants
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Plant, any member of the plant kingdom, comprising about 260,000
known species of mosses, liverworts, ferns, herbaceous and woody ,
bushes, vines, trees, and various other forms that mantle the earth and are
also found in its waters. range in size and complexity from small,
nonvascular mosses, which depend on direct contact with surface ....
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.... tremendous variety of plant species is, in part, a reflection
of the many distinct cell types that make up individual plants. Fundamental
similarities exist among all these cell types, however, and these
similarities indicate the common origin and the interrelationships of the
different plant species. Each individual plant cell is at least partly
self-sufficient, being isolated from its neighbors by a cell membrane, or
plasma membrane, and a c ....
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Number of words: 1780
Number of pages: 7 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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