What is liverworts?
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commonly mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information.
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Bryophytes is divided into three classes:-
1) Liver wort
2) Hornwort
3) Mosses
LIVERWORTS (Hepaticopsida)
→ Bryophytes included in this class have shape lile livet(e.g Marchentia) or flat (e.g Riccia) so, they are known as liverworts.
→ Plantbody of this group is thallus like and dorsiventral .
Rhizoids and scales are present on thallus
→The leafy members (eg Porella) have tiny life like appendages in two rows on the stem like structures.
→ The Sporophyte of liverworts is completely depends on gametophyte.
→ The Sporophyte of liverworts are made up of foot, seta and capsule.
(exception - Riccia Sporophyte is made up of only capsule)
→ True elaters are present in some members of liverworts.
EXAMPLE;-
RICCIA
MARCHENTIA
CRYPTOTHELLUS
PORELLA
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