Ferns and Mosses

What can some mosses and liverworts do?

• reproduce in a single cycle
• uncurl their leaves into fronds
• break rock into soil
• live for more than 300 million years

When mosses and ferns reproduce, what do they produce in the first cycle?

• spores
• fronds
• sperm
• egg

What do spores become after they are released from sporophytes?

• liverworts
• rhizoids
• cryptophobic
• gametophytes

The zygote develops into a new young fern plant, with its growth resembling the fiddlehead.

• TRUE
• FALSE

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Mosses were the first plants to evolve, with no vascular tissue or seeds.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Spores are better than seeds because spores have a short lifetime

• TRUE
• FALSE

How are mosses and ferns alike?

• They both have fronds
• They both reproduce without seeds
• They both grow only at night
• They both grow in the oceans

Seedless vascular plant that do not bear flowers

• Pteridophytes 
• Bryophytes

Lack true roots and use tiny hair-like stems for absorption of water and nutrients from the soil

• Bryophytes
• Angiosperms
• Gymnosperm 

__________: egg 
Antheridium: sperm

• Archegonuim 
• Rhizome
• Protonema

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