AP BIOLOGY

PLANTS

CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mosses and ferns are examples of flowering plants.
A
True
B
False
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mosses and Ferns do not produce flowers. They are non-flowering plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ferns are plants that do not have flowers. Ferns generally reproduce by producing spores. Similar to flowering plants, ferns have roots, stems and leaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Non-flowering plants include mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycophytes and ferns and reproduce by spores.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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