The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn't have deep roots
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The element carbon is actually the chemical basis for all life. It is the most important because it can be used to form many essential compounds.
Carbon takes up almost 20% of the weight of an organism, and it is essential for them to live and grow. (Also to reproduce.)