1. EQ: How do scientists classify fungi?

2. Fungi Come in a variety of shapes and colors
Range in size from one- celled organisms to masses as wide as 1 ft or more.

4. Cells have nuclei
Their cell walls are made of the same substance as the hard shell of insects

5. Fungi absorb nutrients from their environment.
They decompose, or break down, the tissue of other organisms

6. Fungi grow fast and reproduce through spores
Cannot move
Fungi grow fast and reproduce through spores
Spores can travel by wind and water.

7. EQ: How do scientists classify plants?

8. Plants
Plants are multicellular organisms that have tissues and organs.
Their cells have cell walls
The cells have chloroplast, the cell part that uses the Sun’s energy to make food.

9. Vascular and Nonvascular
One of the ways scientists divide plants into groups is by the way the plant gets water.
The two groups are vascular and nonvascular

11. Tubes or no tubes Vascular Non Vascular fern moss Non-flowering
liverwort
Flowering plant

12. Vascular Plants

13. Vascular Plants
Vascular plants have tissues that act like tubes to transport water through the plant
Tubes transport water and nutrients taken up from soil through the plants roots

14. Vascular Plants These plants DO NOT have to live near water
The vascular system provides support and allows plants to grow very tall.

15. Scientists also classify plants by how they reproduce

16. Seeds or Spores Reproduce
How new living things of the same kind are made
Seed
A plant part that contains a tiny new plant, embryo
Protects the new plant
Contains food for the plant
Spore
Plant cell that can grow into a new plant
Form on the leaves
When they drop to the ground, a new plant can grow

17. Gymnosperms
Vascular plants that produce seeds but do not produce flowers and fruits
Seeds are in hard berries or on woody structures called cones.

18. There are four main groups of gymnosperms
1) Conifers (usually pine trees)
Evergreen-never loses its
leaves
2) Cycads

19. 3) Ginkos
Only one species remains, maidenhair tree
4) Gnetophytes

20. Angiosperms Vascular plants that produce flowers
Flowers make seeds as well as fruit to protect seeds

21. Angiosperms

22. Classifying from seeds
If you look inside a seed, you may see what looks like tiny leaves.
These are called cotyledons
Angiosperms are classified on how many cotyledons their seeds contain

23. Classifying from seeds
Angiosperms are classified on how many cotyledons their seeds contain
Angiosperms that produce seeds with one cotyledon are called monocots.
Corn and palm trees are examples of monocots

24. Angiosperms that produce two cotyledons in a seed are called dicots.
Peas and squash plants are examples of dicots

25. Monocots and dicots

26. Ferns A common type of vascular plant
Have roots and leaves that contain vascular tissue
HOWEVER, ferns do not make seeds
They use spores
A spore is like a seed, but holds only half the beginnings of a new plant inside
They fall off, then germinate, and produce a different plant

27. What is the key difference between ferns and most vascular plants?
Ferns reproduce by spores instead of seeds.

28. Nonvascular Plants Nonvascular plants absorb water like a sponge.
These plants DO NOT have specialized tube- like tissues.
Water passes directly from cell to cell
Nonvascular plants must be close to a water source.
They do not grow very tall because they do not the tube-like water transport system 

29. Classifying plants into smaller groups
Scientists compare plants’ roots, stems, and leaves.
Leaves have many shapes and sizes
Vein patterns are different
Flowering plants have different flowers and seeds.
They have different colors, sizes, shapes and number of petals.
Seeds also have different shapes, sizes and colors