What are ferns? Describe its salient features.

Q: What are Mosses ? Where they can be found ?

A: Mosses are a type of living organisms. Living organisms are the ones that possess characteristics of…

Q: Why are ferns able to grow taller than mosses?

A: Ferns able to grow taller than mosses because ferns are vascular plants and mosses are non-vascular…

Q: Could Bryophytes, even though they lack vascular plant components (xylem and phloem), ever manage to…

A: Anatomy and physiology are the branches of biology, and anatomy deals with the study of the…

Q: How many sporangia occur on each sporophyll?

A: A leaf is defined as the principal or prominent lateral appendage found in the vascular plant stem…

Q: Differentiate between liverworts and mosses.

A: All plants come under the kingdom Plantae. They are eukaryotes, multicellular, and having cell…

Q: What are general characters of pteridophytes?

A: The plant kingdom is very large. It consists of a wide variety of plants that differ from each other…

Q: Name two reasons mosses usually live in moist, shadyhabitats.

A: Step 1 Mosses are radially symmetrical leafy bryophytes in which rhizoids are multicellular and the…

Q: What are the economic uses of the Family Schizaeaceae (a taxon under Pteridophytes)?

A: Schizaeaceae belong to the Pteridophytes group. leaves appear grass-like and having long petiole,…

Q: Identify the components of the ferns’ life cycle.

A: Ferns are an ancient group of vascular plants. The ferns do not produce seeds, woods, and flowers.…

Q: Define the Moss life cycle ?

A: Moss, or the Bryophyta taxonomic division, are small, non-vascular, flowerless plants that typically…

Q: What is the advantage to ferns and seed plants of having larger sporophytes relative to those of…

A: Bryophytes are the land plants that do not have a vascular system and therefore they are called…

Q: Define what are heterosporous pteridophytes? Give example.

A: these are the vascular plant they disperse spore they are also known as cryptogams they are seedless…

Q: What is the lasting form inpteridophytes, thegametophyte or thesporophyte? How can it becompared to…

A: Pteridophytes are spore producing plants. They neither produce flower or seeds. Pteridophytes are…

Q: What basic features of the ferns and their relatives distinguish them from any organisms studied…

A: Ferns and their close plant relatives, within the Pteridophyta group, are very curiously and old…

Q: What are Whisk Ferns and Horsetails ?

A: A whisk fern  belonging the genus Psilotum has water- and food-conducting tissues but lacks true…

Q: Why are most of the ferns found in moist areas?

A: The pteridophyte is the vascular plant that spreads spores. These are also called as cryptogams. The…

Q: What is the role of herbia?

A: Taxonomic aids are helpful in identification and classification of organisms. These are in the form…

Q: What are Pteridophytes? Where are they grown?

A: Vascular plants have vascular tissues, which circulate resources through the plant. The vascular…

Q: Why is the fern able to grow larger than the moss?

A: In the forest understorey, moss and fern species are prevalent. Both moss and fern species are…

Q: Angiospermae and Gymnospermae?

A: The angiosperms constitute highly advanced plants, which dominate the present vegetation. In…

Q: List three ways that ferns, which lack secondary growth,are able to elevate their leaves and thus…

A: Ferns are group of vascular plants, which show alteration of generations in their life cycle. These…

Q: What are xerophytes? Give some examples of xerophytes.

A: The term xerophyte can be defined as the plant species that have evolved over time to survive in dry…

Q: Describe the life cycle of ferns and compare their sporophyte and gametophyte generations.

A: Ferns are vascular plants with leaves. While they, like conifers and flowering plants, have veins…

Q: Difference between liveworts and moss?

A: Bryophytes belong to a non-vascular group of plants which lack an internal organization of a…

Q: How different aregymnosperms frombryophytes andpteridophytes?

A: The kingdom Plantae is one of the most far reaching realms with more than 300,000 unique species.…

Q: How do bryophytes differ from other plants?

A: The amphibians of the “Plantae” kingdom are called bryophytes.

Q: What are sporophylls?

A: A leaf is the principal lateral appendage of the vascular plant stem, generally borne above ground,…

Q: What are parasitic plants?

A: All the living organisms are dependent on the plant or animal for their food. The animals can move,…

Q: Why are whisk ferns and horsetails now classified as ferns?

A: The characteristics of ferns are- They have vascular tissues. The produce by spores production.…

Q: What is the Megasporophyll, ventral view of bread palm

A: Bread palm, around 65 species of Encephalartos, family Zamiaceae are native to Africa. The name is…