AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mosses are flowerless plants that grow in clumps. They don’t have roots. Instead they have thin root-like growths called rhizoids that help anchor them.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Rhizoids are small filaments, or tiny hairs, that are found on bryophytes like mosses, liverworts, hornworts, which are non-vascular plants, and some species of fungi and algae.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike most other plants, mosses don’t have roots. Instead they have rhizoids, which are small hairlike structures. Their main function is anchoring the plant to rock, bark or soil.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most bryophytes are small. They not only lack vascular tissues; they also lack true leaves, seeds, and flowers. Instead of roots, they have hair-like rhizoids to anchor them to the ground and to absorb water and minerals (see Figure below).