AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mosses are non-flowering plants which produce spores and have stems and leaves, but don’t have true roots. Mosses, and their cousins liverworts and hornworts, are classified as Bryophyta (bryophytes) in the plant kingdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -Non-flowering plants include mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycophytes and ferns and reproduce by spores. Some non-flowering plants, called gymnosperms or conifers, still produce seeds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mosses do not fall into the usual type of plant type possessing roots, stem, flowers, fruit and seeds as they have none.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some plants don’t produce flowers and seeds. Plants such as ferns and mosses are called nonflowering plants and produce spores instead of seeds. There is also another group called the Fungi, that include mushrooms, and these also reproduce by spores.

Detailed explanation-5: -Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta.