NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ferns (Polypodiopsida) are a group of the lower vascular plants; other groups include the whisk ferns (Psilotophyta), club and spike mosses (Lycophyta), and horsetails (Sphenophyta, or Arthrophyta).

Detailed explanation-2: -Herbaceous tracheophytes are plants without wooded stem such as the yearly flowering plants petunias and other perennial ornamental plants like ferns, lavender or aster as well as fruits and vegetables like lettuce, strawberries and tomatoes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mosses are non-vascular plants with about 12, 000 species classified in the Bryophyta. Unlike vascular plants, mosses lack xylem and absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mosses (Bryophytes) Unlike vascular plants (i.e., tracheophytes), in bryophytes the haploid gametophyte generation serves as the primary stage for photosynthesis and growth and the diploid sporophyte, which is nutritionally dependent on the gametophyte, performs reproductive and dispersal functions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). Scientific names for the group include Tracheophyta, Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato.