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Both ferns and mosses are non-flowering vascular plants. They have specialized vascular tissue for the transport of water and nutrients. They reproduce using spores instead of seeds.

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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 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.


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.


How are mosses and ferns alike?

They both grow in damp places


Ferns and mosses can reproduce by?

they are both seedless plants so thay reproduce by spores called sporangia


How are club mosses and ferns similar?

Club mosses (Phylum Lycopodophyta) and horsetails (Phylum Equisetophyta) are similar to ferns (Phylum Pteridophyta) in that they; - do not produce seeds, only spores - have stems that are unstrengthened by wood (evolved first in the more advanced gymnosperms) - have a dominant sporophyte generation - do have vascular tissue (not as advanced as seed plants but there nonetheless) - do not produce flowers (flowers evolved first in angiosperms)


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.


Are carrots vascular or seedless?

Carrots are only vascular plants. ferns-both mosses- seedless carrots- vascular redwoods-both liver worts- seedless horsetails- both


What is one difference between conifers and mosses?

Conifers have good roots, but mosses' roots are not proper. Also conifers reproduce by making seeds that develop in cones, but mosses reproduct by making spores.


How do moss and ferns differ?

Ferns are pteridophytes. Mosses are bryophytes. Mosses have rhizoids, simple root like structures, ferns have rhizomes or underground stems. Both ferns and mosses reproduce via spores, produced from the sporophyte and gametes from the gametophyte. Ferns; however, are sporophyte dominant and mosses are gametophyte dominant. The main, most noticeable form of the moss is the gametophyte, a haploid structure. The less obvious moss sporophyte is simply a stalk called a seta and spore capsule. On the other hand the most noticeable part of the fern is the sporophyte, which may be huge in the case of tree ferns like Dicksonia and Alsophila/Cyathea. The very much less conspicuous part of a fern life cycle is the nondominant gametophyte, which takes the form of a cardoid prothallus and produces gametes (sperm cells and egg cells) in archegonia and antheridia. Spores are produced in the spore capsules of mosses. In ferns, whole clusters of spore capsules called sporangia are found huddled in structures called sori (singular sorus) on the underside of the fern fronds. Mosses do not have true leaves. The leaf like structures are haploid and unicellularly thick. Ferns have multicellular, diploid fronds.


What two characteristics do ferns club mosses and horsetails share?

They are very similar in many ways (both show rhizomatous growth) Their main differences is that horsetails have highly reduced leaves (whereas ferns have large, well-developed fronds); horsetails show a unique type of growth where the stems are jointed; and ferns carry their spores on the back of their leaves in sori, whereas horsetails carry their spores in strobili, which are borne on the tip of stems.


Is fern made up cells?

Yes, ferns are made up of cells, as are all living organisms.