NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM PLANTAE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Water moves in bryophytes by means of
A
diffusion
B
phloem
C
xylem
D
active transport
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Primitive bryophytes like mosses and liverworts are so small that they can rely on diffusion to move water in and out of the plant. Mosses have a few strands of water conducting tissue in their central stem, but nothing like the large and well organized network of tubes in tracheophytes, or “tube plants".

Detailed explanation-2: -Bryophytes is the informal group name for mosses, liverworts and hornworts. They are non-vascular plants, which means they have no roots or vascular tissue, but instead absorb water and nutrients from the air through their surface (e.g., their leaves).

Detailed explanation-3: -Water and nutrients are transported through bryophytes through the process of absorption and osmosis. Most plants have specialized types of tissues called xylem and phloem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: The members of Bryophytes are nonvascular plants. They carry out the transport of water and nutrients via diffusion process. Lack of vascular tissues, the members of Bryophytes absorb water and nutrients at the surface and transport the materials from cell to cell.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mosses are primitive, small, and non-vascular systems, the conductive tissues is absent which might be used for transportation of water and minerals. So, the method of passive diffusion takes place i.e. osmosis, by which movement of water takes place from high concentration to low concentration.

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