AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ferns were traditionally classified in the class Filices, and later in a Division of the Plant Kingdom named Pteridophyta or Filicophyta.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies) Pteridophytes are vascular plants and have leaves (known as fronds), roots and sometimes true stems, and tree ferns have full trunks. Examples include ferns, horsetails and club-mosses.

Detailed explanation-3: -fern, (class Polypodiopsida), class of nonflowering, herbaceous vascular plants that possess true roots, stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ferns are not bryophytes. They are pteridophytes. Ferns possess well-defined roots, stems, and leaves. They have a well-developed vascular system.