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Moss and lichen prepare area for other organisms.
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A plant that is a cross between a fungi and an algae?
Lichen is formed by a partnership between fungi and algae. Lichen is a specific type of moss that grows on rocks.
What is moss and lichen?
A lichen is a plant, usually an alga, and a fungus living symbiotically. Moss is a common name for the Bryophytes, a phylum of usually small plants with a distinctive life cycle. Lichens and moss, though often found in similar environments, aren't really related.
Is moss edible?
Almost every type of moss and lichen is edible. However, they're also rather disgusting, and not very nutritious. As well, due to the structure of lichens, they often contain unwanted insects and dirt.
Does moss and mould make their own food?
Yes. Moss are plants and make their own food by photosynthesis.
What Plants are in Redwood National Park?
all kinds of plants including redwood moss.
What plants are the examples of the non vascular plants?
Moss. lichen
What does a lemming eat?
plants, grasses, moss, and lichen
How is lichen important to succession?
Lichen is the base in the chain of succession. It starts at lichen, the moves on to moss, then to small plants, and so on.
What type of plants are in the taiga?
Evergreen trees, shrubs, moss, and lichen
What are the native plants of the taiga biome?
Lichen, moss, evergreen trees.
What kinds of plants grow in the taiga?
evergreens,shrubs,moss, and lichen
Can you name 5 plants that have no flowers?
Grass Algae Moss Lichen Seaweed
What do caribo eat?
They eat grass, tree bark, tundra plants such as lichen and moss.
What is a synonym for lichen?
Moss, tree moss, rock moss.
What grows in the canopy layer of the rainforest?
no
What do the animals in the Arctic eat?
Other animals, moss, lichen, roots, bark, leaves...
What is a fine outgrowth serving as a root on lower plants such as lichen and moss called?
Is this for the Daily telegraph crossword by anychance? The answer is rhizzoid.
