Defining Traits & Habitat
Non-vascular plant cell walls are made of this material.
What is cellulose?
Non-vascular plants form a green carpet to prevent this from washing away.
What is dirt?
Non-vascular plants first colonized land approximately this many million years ago.
What is 470 million years ago?
Because non-vascular plants make their own food through photosynthesis, they use this mode of nutrition.
What is autotrophic?
This specific genus of soft, spongy moss grows in wet habitats like bogs and marshes.
What is Sphagnum (peat moss)?
Non-vascular plants grow in these damp, dark types of environments around the world
What are damp, shady places?
Non-vascular plants serve this role in nature by alerting us to environmental hazards.
What are natural pollution alarms?
Land plants evolved from these aquatic organisms.
What is green algae (charophytes)?
Non-vascular plants transport water across cell membranes strictly via this passive process.
What is osmosis?
This genus of liverworts features special structures on its upper surface for asexual reproduction.
What is Marchantia?
Instead of seeds, non-vascular plants reproduce using these.
What are spores?
Non-vascular plants break down rocks to produce this essential material.
What is soil?
Non-vascular plants use these hair-like structures to anchor themselves to surfaces.
What are rhizoids?
Gases, minerals, and nutrients move through the plant passively via this process.
What is diffusion?
Marchantia uses these cup-shaped structures to produce tiny clones for asexual reproduction.
What are gemma cups?
In the non-vascular plant life cycle, this phase is the dominant one
What is the gametophyte phase?
Non-vascular plants produce powerful metabolites that protect them against bugs, diseases, and this.
What is harsh weather?
Non-vascular plants evolved this waxy outer layer to prevent themselves from drying out on land.
What is a cuticle?
Non-vascular plants absorb nutrients directly through these outer structures rather than through roots.
What are cell walls?
Hornworts belong to this scientific phylum.
What is Phylum Anthocerotophyta?
Non-vascular plants lack true organs and this type of transport tissue
What is vascular tissue?
By soaking up a large amount of water, non-vascular plants help regulate the climate and keep this cool.
What is the planet?
This phylum includes the liverworts on a cladogram.
What is Phylum Marchantiophyta?
Mosses can go dormant for years when dried out and can revive with as little as this amount of water.
What is a single drop of water?
Along with mosses and liverworts, this group makes up the three main types of non-vascular plants.
What are hornworts?