Seedless Vascular Plants: Ferns

Question 1

What are the characteristics of seedless vascular plants?

Answer 1

• True leaves
• Stomata
• Roots
• Sporophyte
• Do not produce seeds
• Vascular tissue - xylem & phloem

Question 2

What is the function of xylem?

Answer 2

For upward transport of water and nutrients

Question 3

What is the function of phloem?

Answer 3

Transport of sugars to less illuminated parts of the plant

Question 4

Name the two distinct phyla of seedless vascular plants.

Answer 4

• Phylum Lycopodiophyta

- Phylum Pteridophyta

Question 5

Describe Phylum Lycopodiophyta

Answer 5

• Club mosses

- Stems covered in photosynthetic short leaves (microphylls)

Question 6

Describe Phylum Pteridophyta

Answer 6

• Ferns, whisk ferns & horsetails

- Ferns - sporophytes have complex leaves with several veins (megaphylls)