nonvascular plants, mosses and ferns. what are nonvascular plants??
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Nonvascular Plants,Mosses
and Ferns
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What are Nonvascular Plants??
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What are Nonvascular Plants?
Nonvascular plants don’t have a well developed system of tubes for transporting water and other materials
Soo…..…They live in watery surroundings -Constant water source-Helps during reproduction
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3 main groups of nonvascular plants
Mosses
Liverworts
Hornworts
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Mosses
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Mosses
The sporophyte grows out
of the gametophyt
e
The capsule contains the spores for reproduction
Rhizoids are root like structures that hold the moss to the earth
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Why are mosses important?
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Why are mosses important?
Gardening! Gardeners often use peat moss to help their soil hold in more water.
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Liverworts and Hornworts
Grown on moist rocks and soil
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FERNS
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Are they vascular or nonvascular?
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Are they vascular or nonvascular?
Ferns have true vascular tissue and they do not produce seeds.
So how do they reproduce?
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Are they vascular or nonvascular?
Ferns have true vascular tissue(BUT it doesn’t work well) and they do not produce seeds.
So how do they reproduce?Spores!!
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SPORES
Ferns grow in moist conditions just like mosses
The spores are found on the fronds
The spores are released into thesurroundings and then grow intogametophytes.
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Ferns
Frond
Stem
Roots