AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Like other plants, they produce chlorophyll and undergo photosynthesis, but they do not have true roots. They instead have multicelled, rootlike appendages called “rhizoids, ” which anchor the plants and take in water and minerals.

Detailed explanation-2: -rhizoid, a short, thin filament found in fungi and in certain plants and sponges that anchors the growing (vegetative) body of the organism to a substratum and that is capable of absorbing nutrients. In fungi, the rhizoid is found in the thallus and resembles a root.

Detailed explanation-3: -They don’t have roots. Instead they have thin root-like growths called rhizoids that help anchor them.

Detailed explanation-4: -A rhizoid (found in bryophytes or ferns) is basically just a filament that anchors the plant to the ground. A root, on the other hand contains vascular tissue, playing a key role in water and nutrient uptake. Q. Rhizoids have the same function as roots in flowering plants.