Transcription: In this lesson we'll cover the producers. First we'll talk about the basic similarities of all plants, and then we'll talk about the two main types of plants. The nonvascular plants, which have no specialized tissues for transporting fluids, and then the vascular plants, which do have specialized tissues for transporting fluids. Plants in general have the following characteristics. They're autotrophic, which means they produce their own food by photosynthesis. They have two types of chlorophyll, A and B. They have a multicellular life cycle which includes haploid and diploid phases. This is re ...