2.   Fungi are often confused with plants, but they are not plants!  The main differences between plants and Fungi:  Fungi do not have roots  Fungi do not get their energy from the sun  Fungi often do not have cellulose in their cell walls  Fungi are decomposers, they eat dead material and break it down, feeding through the process of absorption. Kindom Fungi (not plants!)

3.   They perform photosynthesis (6H 2 0 + 6CO 2  C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6O 2 )  They have cells walls made of cellulose  They are immobile  Their life cycle is an alternation of generations So what is a plant?

4.   Water supports these plants, so they don’t need the same structure as land plants to  The water also keeps them from drying out!  Most water plants fall into the following categories:  Green algae  Brown algae  Red algae 1 st of 3 groups of plants: Aquatic plants

5.   As oceans got too crowded, some plants moved onto the land, but it wasn’t easy:  Gravity weighs them down  They could dry out!  Without water to carry their genetic info to other plants, how does it get there? The transition to land

6.   They developed:  strong stems to fight gravity  deep root systems to pull water up into them and a vascular system to transport it around their “bodies”  flowers to spread their pollen by wind, insect and animal  Seeds to protect and transport fertilized genetic material (well some of them did this…not all) How did plants do it?