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Cyanobacteria and green algae are similar to plants. Why they are similar to plants but are not classified as plants?
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Cyanobacteria and green algae are similar to plants. Why they are similar to plants but are not classified as plants?

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Cyanobacteria are not plants because they are prokaryotes. All plant cells are eukaryotic.

Green algae are not plants because though they are eukaryotes they don’t have roots, leaves and stems.

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