MOSS
According to SoftSchools
“ Mosses are able to absorb huge amounts of water and prevent erosion of soil as a result of water runoff .”
Scientists classify living things into main groups . They are kingdom , phylum ( or division ), class , order ,
Classification of living things
It is in the classes ; Takakiopsida , Sphagnopsida , Andreaeopsida ,
Andreaeobryopsida ,
Oedipodiopsida ,
Polytrichopsida ,
Tetraphidopsida , and
Bryopsida . family , genus , and species . Moss is in the Plantae kingdom . That is like the animal kingdom - that most people know of , but for plants . Moss is in the phylum ( or division )
Bryophyta .
Mosses were some of the first plants to manage to survive on solid ground . They , like other plants , evolved from algae millions of years ago . According to The Kiddle Encyclopedia for kids “ They apparently evolved from liverworts : evidence from mitochondrial DNA suggests that this is the stem group from which mosses , hornworts and all other land plants evolved .”
This is some algae .
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