byrophytes

Question 1

what is in the bryophytes?

Answer 1

Heptophyta (liverwarts), anthocartophyta (horn warts), Bryophyta (moss)
Paraphyletic

Question 2

Synapomorphies of the bryophytes

Answer 2

gametophyte dominant, dioecious, no tracheids (small in size for diffusion), spores dispersed through the air, sporophyte lives off the gametophyte

Question 3

types of heptophyta

Answer 3

jugermanniales (the leafy ones)or marchantials

Question 4

The life cycle of marchanina (liverwort)

Answer 4

the cup moss type of thing,
the male gametophyte (flower thing) with antheridium
Female gametophyte (star shape) with archegonium
fertilizes the zygote and sporangium expands of vase
->sporophte grows off of it (releases spore into the winds)
-> can be asexual
— have gemma cups that fill with spores and it releases the spore once it fills up

Question 5

Traits of moss or bryophytes

Answer 5

Doesn’t need much soil, needs humidity and mosture

Question 6

LC of the common moss

Answer 6

name (polytrichum commence)

• > due to rain sperm falls onto archegonium, and the sporophyte is formed
• > when env is bad, shell breaks and microspores into env

Question 7

LC of peat moss

Answer 7

the thing that makes bogs upon layers

-> low ph, can conserve dead bodys