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I'm not sure about horsetails, but ferns don't have flowers or seeds.
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Ferns are more advanced than mosses because mosses lack which structure found in ferns?
xylem
How are ferns and mosses similar to each other?
They reproduce using spores and do not produce seeds or flowers. They both use photosynthesis. They have a dominant gametophyte stage. Ferns specifically have a vascular system which means that they have true roots and leaves that allow them to transfer water and nutrients to all parts of the plant. Mosses do not have a vascular system which is why they stay low to the ground in order to use osmosis to receive water and nutrients.
If angiosperm is a flowering plant what is a non-flowering plant called?
There is no single term for non-flowering plants. There are several types of non-flowering plants: bryophytes, seedless vascular plants, and gymnosperms. Mosses and liverorts are called Bryophytes, the simplest of the non-flowering plants. They lack special food and water conducting tissues found in other plants. Seedless vascular plants (plants that have food and water conducting tissues but reproduce by spores, not seeds) include ferns and clubmosses. Gymnosperms include the conifers (Pines, etc.) that produce seeds from cones, not flowers.
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.
What are the similarities between liverworts and ferns?
Both are embryophytes or land plants. They share some patterns such as having an embryo, antheridia, archegonium, sporanium, stomata on the sporophyte... otherwise they are quite different.
What is a unique feature of ferns in comparison with angiosperms?
Ferns lack the flowers or seeds of the angiosperms. Instead they reproduce by forming spores in two phases, the sporophytic and a gametophytic phase. The second, gametophytic, phase is actually a free-living organism, not a seed.
Do ferns lack seeds?
"They have spores. These are not an exact counterpart to seeds however, they are produced asexually (require no fertilization) as ferns have a 2 stage reproductive cycle."~ Hach on Answers.com
What do ferns lack?
Ferns are plants, they lack motion.
What is the difference between angiosperms and ferns?
Ferns have vascular tissues in the form of xylem and phloem and gametophytic stage dependent on the sporophytic plant body; mosses are lacking xylem & phloem and have sporophytic stage dependent on the gametophytic plant body in the form of capsules.
Ferns are more advanced than mosses because mosses lack which structure found in ferns?
xylem
What do confiers lack?
Flowers.
Why are there more ferns than club mosses?
Because ferns are vascular plants
Does bryophytes have flowers?
Bryophytes (aka embryophytes) is a term used for mosses, hornworts and liverworts. These plants are small, green, rootless, and they reproduce by spores instead of seeds. Daffodils are flowering herbaceous perennials reproduce by seeds. Daffodils are NOT bryophytes.
How are ferns and mosses similar to each other?
They reproduce using spores and do not produce seeds or flowers. They both use photosynthesis. They have a dominant gametophyte stage. Ferns specifically have a vascular system which means that they have true roots and leaves that allow them to transfer water and nutrients to all parts of the plant. Mosses do not have a vascular system which is why they stay low to the ground in order to use osmosis to receive water and nutrients.
What are 3 characteristics of flowering plants?
chloroplasts,chlorophyll,photosynthesis
Why do you think ferns are in a lesson with gymnosperms rather than in a lesson with mosses?
Because ferns (Pteridophyta) and gymnosperms are part of the larger category of vascular plants (Tracheophyta) and share common features that mosses lack. Perhaps also because of the spurious notion that "seed ferns" (Pteridospermatophyta), the ancestors of the gymnosperms, evolved from ferns. In fact, "seed ferns" are a large, heterogeneous category of plants which are generally believed to be only distantly related to true ferns.
If angiosperm is a flowering plant what is a non-flowering plant called?
There is no single term for non-flowering plants. There are several types of non-flowering plants: bryophytes, seedless vascular plants, and gymnosperms. Mosses and liverorts are called Bryophytes, the simplest of the non-flowering plants. They lack special food and water conducting tissues found in other plants. Seedless vascular plants (plants that have food and water conducting tissues but reproduce by spores, not seeds) include ferns and clubmosses. Gymnosperms include the conifers (Pines, etc.) that produce seeds from cones, not flowers.
