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Think about that cotton shirt in your closet. The berries on your breakfast cereal. The carrots in your lunch. If there were no plants in the world, none of these things would exist.
Plants vary from microscopic algae in the water to huge sequoia trees. But what exactly is a plant? A plant is a living thing that captures and uses the Sun’s energy to make its own food. Come meet some of the more than 350,000 species, or kinds, of plants and see how important they are.