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Ferns are more advanced than mosses because mosses lack which structure found in ferns?
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What do ferns and mosses have in common?
Mosses and Ferns both reproduce using spores instead of seeds or flowers. Mosses and Ferns are both plants. Mosses and Ferns are both made up of cells. Mosses and Ferns both photosynthesize.
How do ferns and mosses get water?
mosses and ferns get water by absorbing the moistness
How do the size of moss moss fern plants differ?
Ferns are vascular plants. They contain vascular strands that allow water and nutrients to be transferred throughout the the plant. Mosses lack the vascular strands(or tissue) causing the mosses to have a much smaller stature because they are not able to transfer nutrients very well.
How does reproduction in ferns differ from that in mosses?
The reproduction in ferns differs from that in mosses in that it is purely asexual. As for mosses, they reproduce both sexually and asexually.
What trait do ferns have that mosses do not?
Mosses are non-vascular plants whereas ferns are vascular. In ferns Sporophyte is dominant but in mosses gametophyte is dominant generation. Ferns have definite roots but in mosses leaves and roots are mostly false.
Which reproductive structure is found in life cycles of mosses and ferns?
Sporangium
What do ferns and mosses have in common?
Mosses and Ferns both reproduce using spores instead of seeds or flowers. Mosses and Ferns are both plants. Mosses and Ferns are both made up of cells. Mosses and Ferns both photosynthesize.
How do ferns and mosses get water?
mosses and ferns get water by absorbing the moistness
Mosses and ferns are reproduce by what insted of seeds?
I believe mosses and ferns release spores that become other mosses and ferns later on.
How do the size of moss moss fern plants differ?
Ferns are vascular plants. They contain vascular strands that allow water and nutrients to be transferred throughout the the plant. Mosses lack the vascular strands(or tissue) causing the mosses to have a much smaller stature because they are not able to transfer nutrients very well.
Why mosses and ferns are not classified with flowering plants and conifers?
Because mosses don't have flowers and they don't have cones
How does reproduction in ferns differ from that in mosses?
The reproduction in ferns differs from that in mosses in that it is purely asexual. As for mosses, they reproduce both sexually and asexually.
What trait do ferns have that mosses do not?
Mosses are non-vascular plants whereas ferns are vascular. In ferns Sporophyte is dominant but in mosses gametophyte is dominant generation. Ferns have definite roots but in mosses leaves and roots are mostly false.
How are Horsetails ferns and club mosses different from mosses?
Angiosperms have flowers, fruits and seeds. However ferns, horsetails, and club mosses do not have either of these.
How are ferns horsetails and club mosses different from mosses?
Angiosperms have flowers, fruits and seeds. However ferns, horsetails, and club mosses do not have either of these.
Where would you find pteridophytes?
ferns and club mosses ferns and club mosses
Why phylum pterophyta has advanced characteristics than phylum lycophyta?
Phylum Pterophyta includes things such as ferns, which are fully functioning plants with leaves. Phylum Lycophyta includes things like mosses, which are less advanced than ferns.
