DENDROLOGY

DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY

PLANT CLASSIFICATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Owen looks at five plants. He classifies a fern, moss, and pine tree in one group. He classifies an apple tree and rose bush in another group. Which characteristics did Owen use to classify the plants?
A
woody stems and soft stems
B
long, thin leaves and wide, round leaves
C
flowering plants and non-flowering plants
D
Plants that grow on rocks and plants that grow in soil
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Flowering plants grow flowers and use seeds to reproduce, or make more plants like them. Nonflowering plants do not grow flowers, and use either seeds or spores, which are very tiny parts of a plant that can be used to reproduce, to grow more plants just like them.

Detailed explanation-2: -But here as we are talking about Non-flowering plants, so we can say that all plants do not have seeds. Liverworts and hornworts are also without seeds. Numerous plants do not possess Seeds. Plants such as Ferns, and Mosses which are Non-flowering In nature produce spores instead of seeds.

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