Non-Vascular Plants
This is the common name for plants in the phylum Bryophyta.
This is the type of vascular tissue that conducts water.
What is xylem?
This type of leaf is found in lycophytes and has only one vein.
What is a microphyll?
When a fern spore germinates, it will grow into one of these.
What is a gametophyte?
An abundance of this molecule (which falls from the sky) is required for fertilization to occur in bryophytes.
What is water?
This is the type of vascular tissue that conducts carbohydrates.
What is phloem?
What is Lepidodendron?
Ferns have these types of leaves, which have a branching system of veins.
What is a megaphyll?
These haploid structures are released from moss sporophytes.
What are spores?
These are the long, thin, tapering conducting cells found in xylem.
What are tracheids?
Lycophytes that produce only one type of spore would be said to display this characteristic.
What is homosporous?
This genus of plants has jointed, hollow stems.
What is Equisetum?
This phylum contains Marchantia.
What is Marchantiophyta?
These are the wider, shorter, barrel-shaped conducting cells found in xylem.
What are vessel elements?
Lycophytes that produce two types of spores would be said to display this characteristic.
What is heterosporous?
In ferns, this structure would produce eggs.
What is the archegonium?
The common name for members of this phylum is "hornwort."
What is Anthocerophyta?
These are the conducting cells of phloem that are found in flowering plants.
What are sieve tube members?
This is a genus of heterosporous lycophytes. They have very short leaves.
What is Selaginella?
In ferns, this structure would produce sperm.
What is the antheridium?