AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The leaves of ferns are often called fronds. Fronds are usually composed of a leafy blade and petiole (leaf stalk). Leaf shape, size, texture and degree of complexity vary considerably from species to species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Frond. The leaf of a fern. These are called fronds to distinguish them from the leaves of flowering plants. Leaves in flowering plants are purely concerned with photosynthesis whereas fern fronds have both a photosynthetic function and a reproductive function.

Detailed explanation-3: -ˈfränd. : a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions. : a thallus or thalloid shoot (as of a lichen or seaweed) resembling a leaf. fronded.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frond is a form of leaf which is commonly found in ferns. It has a basic structure of a long leave that has a pinnately compound leaf structure.

Detailed explanation-5: -The leaves of ferns are called fronds. Fronds also contain the sex cells called spores, which are held in reproductive centers called sori. Spores from the sori germinate into young fern plants called prothallus. Fronds are most often compound leaves, or simply leaves that divide into smaller segments called leaflets.