Plants

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  • Pertaining to the scientific classification of plants.
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    Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize, but still have flowers, fruits, and seeds. Plants are characterized by sexual reproduction and alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is also common. There are about 320,000 known species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260,000–290,000, produce seeds. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen, and are the basis of most of Earth's ecosystems. Plants that produce grain, fruit, and vegetables also form basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.

    植物学において植物相（フローラ flora。複数形 floras または florae ）は、ある地域もしくは時代における全ての植物の種の総体を意味し、とくに自生の植物あるいは在来種の植物である。Flora のもうひとつの意味は、特定地域、あるいは時代区分における植物種の記載を行った書物またはそれに類する記録で、日本語では植物誌を充てる。両者とも、英語の読みそのままにフローラと言うこともある。 フロラという語はローマ神話の花の女神のラテン名である。動物でこれに対応するのは fauna（動物相または動物誌）である。生物の分類学や生態学では植物相と動物相および菌類などその他の生物群をあわせて集合的に生物相とよぶ。

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    Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize, but still have flowers, fruits, and seeds. Plants are characterized by sexual reproduction and alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is also common. There are about 320,000 known species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260,000–290,000, produce seeds. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen, and are the basis of most of Earth's ecosystems. Plants that produce grain, fruit, and vegetables also form basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.

    植物（しょくぶつ、英: plant）とは、生物区分のひとつ。 広辞苑の第5版によると「植物」は、草や木などのように、根があって場所が固定されて生きているような生物のことで、動物と対比させられた生物区分である。 それに対し、生物学にも歴史があり、二界説ないし五界説のような分類法が採用されていた時代があった。そこでは菌類（キノコやカビ）、褐藻（ワカメなど）なども植物と見なしていた。対してここ数十年の生物学では、分類群としての名称はあくまで「植物界」である為、現在も定義がひとつに定まっていない。陸上植物を含む単系統群として植物を定義するが、どの単系統を選ぶかにより複数の定義が並立している。狭い定義では陸上植物のみを植物として認めるが、より広い定義では緑色植物全体を植物としたり、紅色植物、灰色植物をも植物に含めたりする。また、「植物」と「植物界」という言葉の違いについても、乱暴に『「植物」は植物界のシノニムだ』と言ってしまう人と、『そうではない』という人など、生物学者たちの中でも意見は分かれている。古い二界説や五界説では植物とみなされていた菌類や褐藻や光合成原生動物（ミドリムシや珪藻など）は、「系統が異なる」として、現在（2012年）では生物分類学上は植物とみなされていない。だが、さらにややこしいことに、生態学的には、こういう分類法では無い。例えば生態学では「光合成を行うワカメや珪藻は、植物（生産者）」とする。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Plant)

    Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll or to photosynthesize, but still have flowers, fruits, and seeds. Plants are characterized by sexual reproduction and alternation of generations, although asexual reproduction is also common. There are about 320,000 known species of plants, of which the great majority, some 260,000–290,000, produce seeds. Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen, and are the basis of most of Earth's ecosystems. Plants that produce grain, fruit, and vegetables also form basic human foods and have been domesticated for millennia. Plants have many cultural and other uses, as ornaments, building materials, writing material and, in great variety, they have been the source of medicines and psychoactive drugs. The scientific study of plants is known as botany, a branch of biology.

    陸上植物（りくじょうしょくぶつ）とは、陸上に上がった緑色植物の一群。コケ植物、シダ植物、種子植物をさす。これは最も狭義の（リン・マーギュリスの定義による）植物と同義である。 最初の陸上植物が出現したのは、約4億5000万年前のオルドビス紀である。 陸上植物の定義は系統的なものである。したがって、藻類にも陸生のものがあるが、そういうものはこれに含めず、逆に陸生のものから再び水棲に戻ったと考えられる水草は含まれる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Plant)
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