(Five Kingdom Classification)

Kingdom: Planta

• Plants have cell walls and chlorophyll
  
• Other kingdoms are: Monera (bacteria), Protista (protozoans), Fungi and Animalia

Division: Tracheophyta

• Vascular plants

• Seed plants

• flowering plants

Subclass: Dicotyledonae (dicots)

• Two cotyledons, branching veins in leaves

• special anatomy of fruit and embryo
  
• contains several families

• (e.g., mustards and cabbages)
  
• 4 petals, 4 sepals, 6 stamens, ovary consists of two fused carpels
  
• contains 375 genera

• pod a silique, embryos conduplicate
  
• contains over 3200 species

• chromosome number 2n = 20
  
• contains 11 subspecies

• chinensis (pak choi), pekinensis (Chinese cabbage), rapifera (turnip)

• domesticated through selection and breeding