AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shared conifer and fern characteristics include the fact that neither produce flowers. Flower production is essential to the way that many plants reproduce.

Detailed explanation-2: -In addition, all ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are vascular plants. This means they have a set of internal vessels through which water and minerals are transported.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ferns and mosses are different from conifers in their methods of reproduction, as ferns and mosses reproduce by using spores and conifers reproduce by using cones. Conifers are plants and trees that have needles instead of leaves and produce cones.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants).

Detailed explanation-5: -Ferns are seedless, vascular plants. They contain two types of vascular tissue that are needed to move substances throughout the plant. Evolutionarily, this addition of vascular tissue to plants is what allowed ferns to grow up and out rather than just spreading along the ground.