Plant Kingdom * Bryophyta * Non-vascular (no xylem or phloem) * Reliance on diffusion and osmosis * Ergo‚ size restriction to damp areas * Reproduce via haploid spores * No roots; rhizoids * No true stems * Possible earliest colonists of land. * Moss‚ liverworts‚ hornworts * Filicinophyta * Seedless (male gamete meets female gametes) * Vascular (xylem carry water and phloem carry nutrients) * Ferns‚ club mosses‚
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Colton Ramstrom Mrs. Fulton Intro to Botany 4/11/12 Oddities of Kingdom Plantae Through evolution plants have acquired complex and unique characteristics. Some of these characteristics may be deemed bizarre. Plants have come a long way since their shift to terrestrial habitats from aquatic habitats millions of years ago. From the development of the cuticle to prevent water loss to the evolution of vascular tissues to provide for efficient internal transportation‚ all evolutionary changes took
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Eyes on the Prize: The Key to the Kingdom (1974-1980) When watching the video Eyes on the Prize‚ The Key to the Kingdom feels as though half way through it has a completely different segment. The first segment talks about Boston‚ Massachusetts and its struggle for quality education of blacks while the second segment talks about Atlanta‚ Georgia and its fight for black progress through economic equity. I find it coincidental that the first segment is from a Northern state where the blacks are
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In the novel Kingdom Come‚ authors Mark Waid and Alex Ross depict a culture of violence and the Apocalypse to illustrate that loss of humanity through violence ultimately leads up to Apocalypse‚ which cleanses the chaos and restores
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Amr Amr 12/10/2013 Egypt Burning: How one Egyptian revolutionary movement overthrew a dictator while one another overthrew a democracy. On the 17th of December‚ 2011 a vegetable vendor lit himself on fire in response to the corrupt and inefficient bureaucratic system in Tunisia. This small event by an unknown vendor led to the biggest and fastest spread of social movements in the history of the Arab world known as the Arab spring. Yet while the
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Egypt and Mesopotamia Essay Jeff Garcia History 1 09/26/14 Civilization is an advanced state of human society‚ in which a high level of culture‚ science‚ industry‚ and government has been reached by definition. Egypt and Mesopotamia are two primary models of complex and unique societies that established to be both prosperous and effective. The two greatest significant civilizations of the world developed in the same region of Middle East and North Africa‚ closely linked and influenced
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The Mummies of Ancient Egypt The historical place of Ancient Egypt contains mummies with many secrets and treasures. The ancient tombs of mummies are important pieces of history that still live today. These mummies are interesting parts of history because of the steps it took to mummify a person‚ the way the tomb was prepared for the afterlife‚ and why the Egyptians mummified people. One of the biggest parts to mummification was the steps it took to mummify a person. There were many complex steps
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Moonrise Kingdom Moonrise Kingdom is a movie about an orphan named Sam and a girl named Suzy who fall in love and run away from home‚ ( however Sam does not have a home do to the fact that he is an orphan ). I like how it explains the life of Sam‚ a boy scout whose foster parents ent him back to the orphanage‚ and Suzy. Suzy is a “troubled” child with anger issues and a love of her kitten. Jared Gilman‚ Sam‚ does a great job showing the pain of being an orphan. Kara Hayward‚ Suzy‚ also did
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Coniferophyta Division The Coniferophyta Division is made up of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs. These plants tend to be tough and can survive in stressful environments‚ including drought‚ high winds‚ heat‚ and cold. Some Conifers are the oldest plants on earth‚ growing to over 5‚000 years old. Conifers have either needles or scale-like leaves. They bear cones instead of fruits‚ and their seeds do not have a shell-like outer coating like flowering plants. Plants from the Coniferophyta Division
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Mesopotamia and Egypt are similar in a variety of ways‚ especially considering that Mesopotamia pre-dates Egypt‚ so it is easy to see the connections between the two. One of the major difference between the two societies was how their systems of class worked‚ Mesopotamia was more fair towards all people rather than Egypt which was extremely bias and segregated. Furthermore‚ they varied in the ways they punished convicts‚ but shared similarities in punishments for capital crimes. Lastly‚ there were
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