DENDROLOGY

DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY

PLANT CLASSIFICATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Choose all that are true for moss plants
A
vascular
B
non-vascular
C
seed bearing
D
use spores to reproduce
E
non-flowering
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Non-flowering plants include ferns, clubmosses, horsetails, mosses, lichens, and fungi. These are spore-producing plants, a major feature distinguishing them from the seed-producing flowering plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -The given statement is TRUE: the life cycle of mosses contains both haploid and diploid generations. The life cycle of mosses includes the alternation of generation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Together with the related liverworts, mosses make up a group of plants known collectively as ‘Bryophytes’. This is a group of non-flowering plants which are considered to be fairly simple in evolutionary terms. Compared to Flowering Plants, such as daisies or dandelions, they have a much less organised structure.

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