11B Flashcards
Give three examples of non vascular plants
Mosses, liverworts and hornworts
What group of seed plants do conifers or cone bearing plants belong to?
Gymnosperms
What kind of roots attach mosses to the ground?
Rhizoids
What are ferns, club tails and mosses examples of?
Seedless vascular plants
Do seeds rely on water for fertilization?
No
What happens in an alternation of generations life cycle?
Sporophytes generations leads to the gametophyte generation.
What characteristics separate angiosperms from gymnosperms
Angiosperm has seeds that are completely covered and they have flowers but the gymnosperms seeds aren’t fully covered and they don’t produce flowers
Why do non vascular plants not grow very tall?
They have to be shorter because they can’t transport water too high with no vascular tissues
What is the special structure where a ferns spores are produced called?
Sori
