LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

DIVERSITY AMONG LIFE FORMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Examples of these plants include mosses, liverworts, and other plants with no xylem or phloem (vascular tissue)?
A
dicot
B
vascular plant
C
monocot
D
nonvascular plant
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bryophytes such as mosses and algae are non-vascular plants. They do not possess true roots, stems and leaves. Xylem and phloem are absent. Bryophytes include liverworts, hornworts and mosses.

Detailed explanation-2: -These are the nonvascular plants or bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), the seedless vascular plants (clubmosses and ferns including, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns), gymnosperms (conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes), and angiosperms, or flowering plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts are nonvascular plants called Bryophytes.

Detailed explanation-4: -They are low-growing forms of plants that are found growing in moist habitats. Examples of nonvascular plants include mosses or Bryophytes, liverworts or Hepaticophyta, and hornworts or Anthocerophyta.

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