AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ferns are not bryophytes. They are pteridophytes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The phylum Bryophyta includes mosses, while the phylum Pteridophyta includes ferns. Furthermore, mosses lack distinction in the plant body, but ferns have, with real stems, leaves, and roots in the plant body. Both mosses and ferns exhibit generational alternation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bryophytes include plants like liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. These plants do not contain xylem and phloem tissues. They are known as non-vascular plants. Pteridophytes include plants like spikemosses, clubmosses, ferns, quillworts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants are all members of the plant kingdom. The plant kingdom contains mostly photosynthetic organisms; a few parasitic forms have lost the ability to photosynthesize. The process of photosynthesis uses chlorophyll, which is located in organelles called chloroplasts.