Exam 29: Seedless Plants

Which one of the following traits would be found in a typical fern but not a moss?

Why are most bryophytes less than 10 cm tall?

Well-developed vascular systems are absent in all of the following except

The aquatic ancestry of bryophytes is most clearly demonstrated by what character?

The first plants clearly evolved from an organism that,if it existed today,would be classified as a multicellular green ________.

To reproduce sexually,bryophytes require

Whisk ferns,club mosses,and horsetails have all the following characteristics in common with ferns except

Which of the following features are common to both moss leaves and true leaves?

Which one of the following structures in the moss life cycle is not haploid?

Which of the following represents a monophyletic group?

Azolla filiculoides is a small aquatic fern that is typically 1-2 cm tall.How would a botanist distinguish it from a bryophyte?

Plants have a ________ life cycle in which the haploid and diploid stages are multicellular.

Plants lacking well-developed conducting systems such as mosses,liverworts,and hornworts have been called

Which of the following groups is most closely related to the tracheophytes?

Plant success on the terrestrial landscape is linked to the evolution of all of the following except

Bryophytes,like ferns and certain other tracheophyte plants,require

In tracheophyte plants,water and dissolved minerals are conducted away from roots by

Plants as well as brown,green,and red algae show a basic life cycle which involves the alternation of generations between a(n)

A bryologist (a scientist that studies mosses,and their allies)gives a lecture to your biology class.In her lecture,she makes a reference to fern reproduction.She says,"Fern spores germinate into ________."

How do lycophytes differ from bryophytes?