HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOLOGY
Question
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Angiosperms
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Gymnosperm
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Bryophytes
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nonvascular plants are calle d bryophytes. Nonvascular plants include liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. They lack roots, stems, and leaves. Nonvascular plants are low-growing, reproduce with spores, and need a moist habitat.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nonvascular plants (often referred to collectively as the bryophytes) include three groups: the mosses (Bryophyta), approximately 15, 000 species; liverworts (Hepaticophyta), approximately 7500 species; and hornworts (Anthocerophyta), approximately 250 species (Table 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -Nonvascular seedless plants, also known as bryophytes, are classified into three phyla: mosses, hornworts, and the liverworts. Nonvascular plants lack seeds and vascular tissue. These plants are very short because they cannot move nutrients and water up a stem.
Detailed explanation-4: -bryophyte, traditional name for any nonvascular seedless plant-namely, any of the mosses (division Bryophyta), hornworts (division Anthocerotophyta), and liverworts (division Marchantiophyta).