Question

what are bryophytes and what are its features....(5 marks question)
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Answer 1

Answer:

Bryophyta, the division of green plants, refers to embryophytes which in literal terms, are land plants, especially the non-vascular ones. This division includes –

Mosses – class Bryopsida

Liverworts – class Marchantiopsida

Hornworts – class Anthocerotopsida

Characteristics of Bryophytes) : As stated before, the defining feature of bryophytes is that they are non-vascular plants. Other important bryophytes characteristics are as follows:

1(Plants in this category do not have roots but have crude stems and leaves.

2)They have “rhizoids” instead of roots which helps the plant to anchor to surface.

3)These roots or rhizoids do not absorb nutrients like other usual plant roots.

4)Mosses release spores from their leaves which travels by water and make new mosses in new locations.

5(Water is very essential for mosses to grow and spread. They can entirely dry out and survive. When in contact with water, they again revive and continue growing.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Bryophytes are non-vascular embrophytes which are having independent gametophytic phase and parasitic sporophytic phase . The term bryophytes discovered by Braven in 1869 . These are about 25000 species of bryophytes

Features:

1 these occur in moist and satic places specially during rain

2 the plant body is gametophytic.

3 these are small size hand .

4 fertilization is occur in the female sex orchaeganium .

5 these bryophytes ultranation of generation is heteromorphic .