Fruit

Rubus Berry PlantsFruitPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsFruitIn broad terms, a Fruit is a structure of a Plants that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain Plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas. seed-associated structures that do not fit these informal criteria are usually called by other names, such as vegetables, pods, nut, ears and cones.In biology (botany), a "fruit" is a part of a Flowering...

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Flowering plant

Rubus Berry PlantsFlowering plantPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsFlowering plantThe Flowering plant (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing Plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies (derived characteristics). These characteristics include flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and the production of Fruits that contain the seeds.The ancestors of Flowering Plants diverged from gymnosperms around 245–202 million years ago, and the first Flowering Plants known to exist are from 140...

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Sexual Reproduction

Rubus Berry PlantsSexual ReproductionPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsSexual ReproductionSexual Reproduction is characterized by processes that pass a combination of genetic material to offspring, resulting in increased genetic diversity. The two main processes are: meiosis, involving the halving of the number of chromosomes; and fertilization, involving the fusion of two gametes and the restoration of the original number of chromosomes. During meiosis, the chromosomes of each pair usually cross over to achieve homologous recombination.The evolution of Sexual Reproduction is a major puzzle. The first fossilized evidence of sexually...

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Plant Reproduction

Rubus Berry PlantsPlant ReproductionPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsPlant ReproductionPlant Reproduction is the production of new individuals or offspring in Plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. Sexual Reproduction produces offspring by the fusion of gametes, resulting in offspring genetically different from the parent or parents. Asexual Reproduction produces new individuals without the fusion of gametes, genetically identical to the parent plants and each other, except when mutations occur. In seed plants, the offspring can be packaged in a protective seed, which is used as an agent of dispersal.Asexual...

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Asexual Reproduction

Rubus Berry PlantsAsexual ReproductionPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsAsexual ReproductionAsexual Reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only, it is reproduction which does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction, or fertilization. A more stringent definition is agamogenesis which refers to reproduction without the fusion of gametes. Asexual reproduction is the primary form of reproduction for single-celled organisms such as the archaea, bacteria, and protists. Many plants and fungi reproduce asexually as well. While all prokaryotes reproduce asexually...

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Plant

Rubus Berry PlantsPlantPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsPlantPlant are Living Organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about 350,000 extant species of Plants, defined as seed Plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies. As of 2004, some 287,655 species had been identified, of which 258,650 are flowering and 18,000 bryophytes (see table below). Green plants, sometimes called Viridiplantae, obtain most of their energy from sunlight via a process called photosynthesis.DefinitionAristotle...

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Organism

Rubus Berry PlantsOrganismPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsOrganismOrganizational terminologyAll Organism are classified by the science of alpha taxonomy into either taxa or clades.Taxa are ranked groups of organisms, which run from the general (Domain) to the specific (Species). A broad scheme of ranks in hierarchical order is:1. Life2. Domain3. Kingdom4. Phylum5. Class6. Order7. Family8. Genus9. SpeciesTo give an example, Homo sapiens is the Latin binomial equating to modern humans. All members of the species sapiens are, at least in theory, genetically able to interbreed. Several species may belong to a genus, but the members...

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Life

Rubus Berry PlantsLifePicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsLifeLife (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes (biology) from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.In biology, the science of living Organisms, Life is the condition which distinguishes active organisms from inorganic matter. Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in...

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Domain

Rubus Berry PlantsDomainPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsDomainIn biological taxonomy, a Domain (also superregnum, superkingdom, or empire) is the highest taxonomic rank of organisms, higher than a kingdom. According to the three-domain system of Carl Woese, introduced in 1990, the Tree of Life consists of three domains: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. The arrangement of taxa reflects the fundamental differences in the genomes. There are some alternative classifications of life:* The two-empire system or superdomain system, with top-level groupings of Prokaryota (or Monera), Eukaryota and the more recently discovered Archaea empires.*...

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Kingdom

Rubus Berry PlantsKingdomPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsKingdomIn biology, Kingdom (Latin: regnum, pl. regna) is a taxonomic rank, which is either the highest rank or in the more recent three-domain system, the rank below domain. Kingdoms are divided into smaller groups called phyla (in zoology) or divisions in botany. The complete sequence of ranks is Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.Currently, textbooks from the United States use a system of six Kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, Bacteria) while British, Australian and Latin American textbooks may describe five Kingdoms...

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Phylum

Rubus Berry PlantsPhylumPicture Of Rubus Berry PlantsRubus Berry PlantsPhylumIn biology, a phylum (plural: phyla) is a taxonomic rank below Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species and above Class. "Phylum" is equivalent to the botanical term division. Phylum is one of the major biological divisions called Taxa. The Kingdom Animalia contains approximately forty phyla. The relationships among phyla are becoming increasingly well known, and larger clades can be found to contain many of the phyla.General description and familiar examplesInformally, phyla can be thought of as grouping organisms based on general body...

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