AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Mosses and ferns are alike because they are both non-flowering plants and don’t produce seeds either. They are called gymnosperms. Instead, they produce many tiny spores into the air that spread and grow other mosses and ferns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some plants, like ferns and mosses, grow from spores. Other plants use asexual vegetative reproduction and grow new plants from rhizomes or tubers. We can also use techniques like grafting or take cuttings to make new plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ferns generally reproduce by producing spores. Similar to flowering plants, ferns have roots, stems and leaves. However, unlike flowering plants, ferns do not have flowers or seeds; instead, they usually reproduce sexually by tiny spores or sometimes can reproduce vegetatively, as exemplified by the walking fern.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungi, moss and fern all three reproduce by a common method of asexual reproduction which is called spore formation. Spore formation occurs in non-flowering plants. Spore are minute structures that are produced by the parent plant and are released into the air.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mosses are nonvascular primitive plants that produce spores, whereas ferns are vascular plants. Furthermore, mosses lack genuine stems, leaves, and roots, whereas ferns have a plant body that is divided into actual stems, leaves, and roots. Apart from that, unlike mosses, ferns have circinate vernation.