Ferns

Question 1

What is a lower plant?

Answer 1

Term is given to the non- vascular plants

i.e. those plants that do not have specialised cells to move water and nutrients

Question 2

What is a bryophyte?

Answer 2

traditional name for any nonvascular seedless plant

Question 3

What is a Hornwort?

Answer 3

Hornworts are a group of non-vascular Embryophytes (land plants) constituting the division Anthocerotophyta

Question 4

What division is Hornwort?

Answer 4

Anthocerotophyta

Question 5

What is an Embryophyte?

Answer 5

Are land plants. They are the most familiar group of photoautotrophs that make up the vegetation on Earth’s dry lands and wetlands. Embryophytes have a common ancestor with green algae, having emerged within the Phragmoplastophyta clade of freshwater charophyte green algae as a sister taxon of Charophyceae,

Question 6

What is a Gametophyte?

Answer 6

A gametophyteone of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore that has one set of chromosomes.

The gametophyte is the sexual phase in the life cycle of plants and algae. It develops sex organs that produce gametes, haploid sex cells that participate in fertilization to form a diploid zygote which has a double set of chromosomes.

Question 7

What is meant by the higher plants?

Answer 7

Term is given to the vascular plants

i.e. those plants that have specialised cells to move water and nutrients

Question 8

What are Ferns?

Answer 8

Groups of seedless vascular plants that are not closely related to each other.l

Question 9

What is the difference between a sporophyte and a gametophyte?

Answer 9