PLANTS
CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS
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Natalia classifies a plant as a fern. Which of the following statements explains her choice?
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She sees cones on the plant.
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She sees spores on the plant.
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She sees flowers on the plant.
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She sees needles on the plant.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -It represents the gametophyte of the fern that produces both the male and the female gametes. These gametes when fuse, lead to the formation of the sporophytic generation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ferns are non-flowering and do not bear fruits or seeds.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike some other non-flowering vascular plants, ferns produce one type of spore (homosporous) via meiosis in the sac-like sporangia.
Detailed explanation-4: -A fern is any one of a group of about 20, 000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as polypodiophyta, or polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta (vascular plants).
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