AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vascular plants are plants that have specialized tissues called xylem and phloem that enable them to transport water and nutrients throughout their bodies. Nonvascular plants do not have these tissues and are limited to a small size.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plants that have xylem-water-carrying tubes-and phloem-food-carrying tubes-are called vascular and are what you generally think of when you think of plants. Plants that do not have this transport system are called nonvascular and are small, simple plants such as mosses.

Detailed explanation-3: -How Do Nonvascular Plants Get Water? Vascular plants have xylem and phloem that transport water and nutrients to the rest of the plant. Nonvascular plants absorb nutrients and water directly into their cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as what? Vascular or nonvascular.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vascular plants are grouped according to how they reproduce. Specifically, the various types of vascular plants are classified by whether they produce spores or seeds to make new plants. Vascular plants that reproduce by seed evolved highly specialized tissue that helped them spread across the land.