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Q: How is the mechanism for spore dispersal in ferns similar to that of bryophytes?
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What is 1 characteristic that separates ferns from the bryophytes?

Ferns are vascular, bryophytes are not.


What are mosses and ferns?

They are bryophytes.


Which structures are adaptations for dispersal in mosses and ferns?

spores


Where do seedless plants grow?

Bryophytes and ferns grow in damp or wet areas and out of strong sunlight


How do ferns get into places like tree trunk or cracks in a brick wall?

dispersal by wind


Are archegonia haploid or diploid?

Archegonia is diploid. Antheridia is haploid. They are found in bryophytes or ferns.


How do the ferns get onto tree trunks or cracks in the brick wall?

Their spores are deposited there and germinate


What group of plants require water for sexual reproduction to occur?

Strictly speaking all plants, for without water plants die! However algae, bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and pteridophytes (ferns) all have motile male gametes which require free water to swim through to the female gamete.


Rank in order from oldest to youngest fern bryophyte and bacteria?

Bacteria, arising in the Precambrian followed by bryophytes, the simplest land plants of the Silurian and Devonian followed by pteridophytes (ferns), more advanded than bryophytes due to the acquisition of vascular tissue and sporophyte dominance.


When does meiosis occur?

In bryophytes, particularly ferns, meiosis takes place is the stuctures called sorus. These are small dustlike brown dots lining the underside of ferns. The sori contain reproductive cells that produce spores.


What are the differences between bryophytes and spermatophytes?

differentiate between spermatophytes and bryophytes


Why bryophytes not grow taller as the ferns in spore producing plant?

Because liverwotrs are non-vascular plants. How can these thalloid sructures send supplies up without vasculature?