Part one of term paper
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 wate ...

Part two of term paper
... 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 plant kingdom and its' more than 3 billion years of carrying out photosynthesis. Today the world's biomass is composed overwhelmingly of plants, which not only underpin all food webs but also modify climates and create and hold down soil, making what would otherwise be stony, sandy masses habitable for life. Cell Structure and ...