Talk:Vascular plant

How do they move water?

I have the following question which might seem stupid but I have to ask. How do vascular plants move water etc. in the tracheids? For instance in humans the heart pumps the blood..How does this work in plants especially since gravity would do a pretty good job pulling all the juices down? jerry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.30.220.167 (talk) 08:55, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Capillary action. Because tracheids are so freaskily thin, gravity is irrelevant for these tubes to certain extend. Transpiration also sucks the sap up. --Menchi 09:44, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the quick and enlightening answer. Maybe there should be a link for the capillary action page within the article. Thanks again. jerry-greece — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.30.220.167 (talk) 07:04, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

It's been done. :-) --Menchi 08:31, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

wording

The article says this: "is haploid with one set of chromosomes per cell." Is there any other type of haploid? That is, can something be haploid without that? (I don't think so, but I don't know what the writer was trying to say.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Falatwar (talk • contribs) 00:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Haploid indicates "half" of a full set of chromosomes. This actually can be very misleading in plants because some plants are truly "polyploidy" meaning they are actually 3N (or more), which is double the full set of chromosomes. I think the writer meant to explain haploid by saying "with one set of chromosomes per cell." I suggest dropping that portion of the sentence and linking haploid to the correct article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.255.231.209 (talk) 03:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

question

Magnoliophyta? What happened to Angiophyta? I hate to change something that I may be out of date on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.255.231.209 (talk) 03:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Angiophyta is synonymous with Magnoliophyta; the name "Magnoliophyta" is much more commonly used. SCHZMO ✍ 23:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

request

I need more examples of vascular plants! I don't know much about it so I need more information about vascular and nonvascular plants. -Helen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curious Helen Researcher (talk • contribs) 11:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Need More

Need more examples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Okay Okay-Gavin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.42.13 (talk) 00:42, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT VASCULAR PLANTS BECAUSE IM DOING A PROJECT ON IT AND I DONT REALLY HAVE A DISCRIBCTION OF A VASCULAR PLANT-ALEXUS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.181.51.56 (talk) 22:22, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:DYOH Smartse (talk) 10:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wording #2

At the beginning of the Nutrient Distribution section it is stated: “Nutrients and water from the soil and the organic compound produces in leaves”. Should this not be “Nutrients and water from the soil and the organic compounds produced in leaves” instead??? (sans the italics, of course)

195.59.102.18 (talk) 14:32, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it should have. Changed it. Thanks Smartse (talk) 19:57, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I saw that this page was listed as one of the "pending changes" trial articles. However it has been semi-protected for two years, without any significant vandalism since. I asked for it to be un-protected, which HJ Mitchell has kindly done. Therefore this article is no longer protected. It shouldn't be subject to the "pending changes" trial. Axl ¤ [Talk] 16:13, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History of evolution

I came here wanting to know more about the evolution but found nothing on the topic, not even a link to another page that has this info. Can somebody with more info add it here, or link to it? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.158.13.177 (talk) 12:46, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Paradox?

According to the article, vascular plants (of which lycophytes is a subgroup) existed since 425 Ma. According to the article on lycophytes, lycophytes existed for 428. Either did vascular plants exist for longer than 428, or lycophytes for no longer than 425 (unless the truth is in between these values). Alfa-ketosav (talk) 19:41, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt that such ages are accurate to within ±3 Ma. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:43, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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