EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The sporophyte (spore producing plant) All bryophytes have an alternation of generations. The sporophyte (spore-producing moss plant) is very small and leafless and is attached to the top of the moss gametophyte (gamete plant). It consists of a seta (slender stalk) and a terminal capsule (sporangium).

Detailed explanation-2: -Bryophytes are classified into three categories: liverworts, hornworts and mosses.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sporophyte is differentiated into three parts-foot, seta and capsule. After meiosis, spores are produced within the capsule. Q. Which part of the sporophyte is involved in the production of spores in bryophytes?

Detailed explanation-4: -Bryophytes reproduce both sexually and vegetatively. Sexual reproduction involves the mixing of the genes of two parents, with the potential to produce new plants that differ, genetically, from each parent. In vegetative reproduction, there is no such mixing and each new plant is derived from just one parent plant.