DENDROLOGY

DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY

PLANT CLASSIFICATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mosses and liverworts have small root-like structures called
A
rhizomes
B
rhizoids
C
hyphae
D
tubors
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What are rhizoids? Rhizoids are root-like structures that grow at the base of many bryophytes, or mosses, hornworts and liverworts. Rhizoids help anchor the plant to the substrate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mosses. Mosses are flowerless plants that grow in clumps. They don’t have roots. Instead they have thin root-like growths called rhizoids that help anchor them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rhizoids played essential roles in the early evolution of land plants. All liverworts, the closest living relatives of the first land plants, produce unicellular rhizoids, except for Haplomitrium.

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