AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nonvascular plants are plants that do not have any special internal pipelines or channels to carry water and nutrients. Instead, nonvascular plants absorb water and minerals directly through their leaflike scales. Nonvascular plants are usually found growing close to the ground in damp, moist places.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nonvascular plants lack vascular tissue. Vascular tissue provides some type of support and structure to vascular plants. Nonvascular plants absorb water and nutrients from the ground so they remain close to the ground to access water.

Detailed explanation-3: -Also referred to as lower plants, non vascular plants are usually found inhabiting moist and damp areas, in water, bogs, swampy and shady regions, which lack specialized vascular tissues. Consequently, absence of xylem and phloem causes them to be primitive plants possessing primitive parts.