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mosses and ferns get water by absorbing the moistness
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∙ 12y agomosses use rhizoids and ferns use their roots to get water
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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 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 cant ferns grow taller than mosses?
Because mosses rely on diffusion to transport water up the cells and do not have the vessels found in plant cells that allow water to be carried upwards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why cant ferns grow taller than mosses?
Because mosses rely on diffusion to transport water up the cells and do not have the vessels found in plant cells that allow water to be carried upwards.
When can mosses and ferns reproduce sexually?
Ferns and mosses are alike in that they can reproduce sexually only when there is standing water. A film of water must cover the sporangium.
What plants live in fresh water?
mosses, fissidens, java ferns, and pellia
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.
Why do Vascular plants grow taller and thicker than mosses?
Beacause they have a tube to carry food and water, while mosses do not
Ferns are more advanced than mosses because mosses lack which structure found in ferns?
xylem
