Apple Trees
Independent Study Unit:
Apple Tree
Course/ code: Biology, Grade 11/ SBI 3U
This paper will examine apple trees by categorizing them through the following classifications, the vascular system, structures, its responses, practicality, and ecological importance which will be presented in a topical manner.
Classification
The classification of plants is the understanding of the relationships and similarities between plants. It is important to identify unknown species, to group or assign names to organisms and to provide common references for those already identified (Bergman, Carol & Senn, 1988). The apple tree belongs to the Plantae kingdom meaning it is a plant (Bingaman, 1999) and the Tracheophyta subkingdom or phylum, indicates that over the years it “developed an interior plumping system and rigid supporting tissues that allowed them to grow much bigger” (“Phylum tracheophyta”, 1996). All these plants that have conducting tubes are vascular. Apple trees are in the Magnoliopsida class, meaning they are flowering plants (Mishra, 2010), and are in the Rosales order, so their flowers “are bisexual, usually have four or five petals and are flat or cup-shaped with fleshy fruits” (Durham, 2012). They are members of the rose family also known as Rosaceae family (“Rosaceae”, 2011), and of the genus Malus (Bingaman, 1999). Giving the apple tree the scientific name Malus domestica (Girard, 1999). Originating in Asia, there are approximately seven thousand-five hundred varieties of apples known around the world (Smith, 1999), but the most popular are based on how many boxes are produced each year, these include red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, Rome, Fuji, Macintosh, Gala, Jonathan, Idared and Empire apples (Girard, 1999).
These plants are angiosperms with seeds, giving them the ability to have flowers.” Unlike gymnosperms, whose seeds are exposed to weather, animals and people, angiosperms have their seeds surrounded by flowers, which can offer
Apple Tree
Course/ code: Biology, Grade 11/ SBI 3U
This paper will examine apple trees by categorizing them through the following classifications, the vascular system, structures, its responses, practicality, and ecological importance which will be presented in a topical manner.
Classification
The classification of plants is the understanding of the relationships and similarities between plants. It is important to identify unknown species, to group or assign names to organisms and to provide common references for those already identified (Bergman, Carol & Senn, 1988). The apple tree belongs to the Plantae kingdom meaning it is a plant (Bingaman, 1999) and the Tracheophyta subkingdom or phylum, indicates that over the years it “developed an interior plumping system and rigid supporting tissues that allowed them to grow much bigger” (“Phylum tracheophyta”, 1996). All these plants that have conducting tubes are vascular. Apple trees are in the Magnoliopsida class, meaning they are flowering plants (Mishra, 2010), and are in the Rosales order, so their flowers “are bisexual, usually have four or five petals and are flat or cup-shaped with fleshy fruits” (Durham, 2012). They are members of the rose family also known as Rosaceae family (“Rosaceae”, 2011), and of the genus Malus (Bingaman, 1999). Giving the apple tree the scientific name Malus domestica (Girard, 1999). Originating in Asia, there are approximately seven thousand-five hundred varieties of apples known around the world (Smith, 1999), but the most popular are based on how many boxes are produced each year, these include red delicious, golden delicious, granny smith, Rome, Fuji, Macintosh, Gala, Jonathan, Idared and Empire apples (Girard, 1999).
These plants are angiosperms with seeds, giving them the ability to have flowers.” Unlike gymnosperms, whose seeds are exposed to weather, animals and people, angiosperms have their seeds surrounded by flowers, which can offer