Explain why seedless vascular plants have similar environmental restrictions to nonvascular plants despite having an efficient system for water transport.

Q: Describe evolutionary trends in the life cycles of plants.Emphasize the relative sizes of the…

A: The rising dominance of the sporophyte has been a major trend in plant evolution. The ancestors of…

Q: Describe the major classes of seedless vascular plants

A: The vascular system is an organized arrangement of specialized tissues called Xylem and Phloem,…

Q: Reason for the development of the pitcher plant in relation to its natural habitat. What made it…

A: Introduction  Pitcher plants are carnivorous herbs. Its pitcher-shaped leaves form a passive…

Q: State two important features of seed vascular plants and relate how these contributed to their…

A: Angiosperms, gymnosperms, and all seed-containing plants are included in the category of vascular…

Q: Answer the diagram attached below: Determine the following structures with its ploidy level…

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Q: Explain: Unlike seed ferns, cycad foliage leaves do not bear ovules.

A: Cycads contains few features of fern but they produce cones as a reproductive structure which is not…

Q: How does double fertilization occur in flowering plants?a. The two sperm in a pollen tube fertilize…

A: Double fertilization is a characteristic feature of angiosperms in which out of the two sperms…

Q: Determine the reason that all non vascular plants are short.

A: Non-flowering plants are usually defined that they are those that do not produce flowers.…

Q: What features not present in seedless plants havecontributed to the success of seed plants on land?

A: Seedless plants include Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Thallophytes. They often reproduce by giving…

Q: Diagram and describe the development of male andfemale gametophytes and the development of…

A: Sexual reproduction in plants is complex as compared to its vegetative reproduction. It is studied…

Q: In the vascular bundles of flowering plants, protoxylem is closest to the center of the stem, and…

A: The various land vascular plants have two types of arrangement of xylem vascular bundles during…

Q: Explain why angiosperms have fruits, whereas gymnosperms do not.

A: Angiosperms are seed-producing flowering plants whose seeds are enclosed within an ovary. Seeds are…

Q: Explain how seeds differ from spores and provide the evolutionary significance of the seed coat

A: A seed can be defined as the specialized structure which consists of embryo and stored food enclosed…

Q: a)List two characteristics of plants that make them unique. b)Why do plants need to exchange…

A: Phytomorphology is the investigation of the physical structure and outside construction of plants.…

Q: Describe some typical hygrophytic adaptations of plants.

A: Hygrophytic plants are adapted in such manner to withstand them with changing wet conditions of…

Q: Describe two ways that non-vascular plants rely on water in the environment for reproduction?

A: A wide variety of plants is observed in nature. To make their study simpler they have been…

Q: Describe the development of pollen grain and the development of embryosac of flowering plants

A: Introduction :- Each pollen grain is a tiny body of different shape and structure that forms in the…

Q: What structure in seed plants made them even less water reliant than the seedless vascular plants…

A: Seedless vascular plants germinate through spores. Seedless plants have their vascular system and do…

Q: Explain why seedless vascular plants are not considered to be fully successful terrestrial plants…

A: Ferns, horsetails, and clubmosses are examples of seedless vascular plants. These plants, like other…

Q: Explain why the gymnosperms do not produce fruits.

A: Gymnosperm constitutes one of the two major subdivisions of the Spermatophyta division. The…

Q: To determine: The evolutionary trends in the life cycle of plants also emphasize on the relative…

A: The change of a species' defining feature over numerous generations is referred to as evolution.…

Q: Explain the origin of the name “gymnosperm.”

A: Introduction Conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes are among the gymnosperms, a clade of…

Q: Explain why some fruits are seedless

A: A mature, ripened ovary, as well as the contents of the ovary, is referred to as a fruit. The ovary…

Q: In the vascular bundles of flowering plants, protoxylem is closest to the center of the stem, and…

A: The various land vascular plants have two types of arrangement of xylem vascular bundles during…

Q: Briefly explain the term gymnosperms.

A: Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom…

Q: In the evolution of seed plants, explain when seed plants first appeared and how gymnosperms became…

A: The spermatophytes are seed-producing plants, so the alternate term seed plants. They are a subgroup…

Q: Give one function of aerenchyma in aquatic plants?

A: Plant tissues are differentiated into two main types namely meristematic and permanent tissues. On…

Q: What features not present in seedless plants have contributed to the enormous success of seed plants…

A: The seedless plants are algae, bryophyte and pteridophytes.  The seed bearing plants are gymnosperm…

Q: What would be a more distinct lifestage in seedless vascular plants? Sporophyte or Gametophyte

A: Introduction :- Plants with vascular tissue but no flowers or seeds are known as seedless vascular…

Q: Name the nutritive tissue formed within the embryo sac of seed plants.

A: The female gametophyte or megagametophyte, is also known as the embryo sac in flowering plants. They…

Q: Diagram the relationship between the sporophyteand gametophyte generations in bryophytes,…

A: The alternation of generation consists of two phases namely, the gametophytic and the sporophytic…

Q: A) How are the seeds of pine trees dispersed away from the parent plant? b) Suggest an advantage of…

A: Plants are majorly divided into 2 types they are vascular plants and on vascular plants. Non…

Q: Discuss the features that distinguish seedless vascular plants from algae and bryophytes.

A: Introduction Club mosses are the most basic seedless vascular plants, followed by whisk ferns, which…

Q: Name and briefly describe the two phyla of seedless vascular plants.

A: Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Include specialised supporting & water-conducting tissue termed…

Q: Give one significant difference between sporophte and gametophyte.

A: Sporophyte and gametophyte represents the alternation of generation. It occurs in plants and algae…

Q: Gymnosperms are the plants with naked seeds and without flowers. Discuss how.

A: Plants are a type of eukaryotes as they contain a well-defined nucleus. There are several plants…

Q: llustrate the developmental system of plants

A: Plant development is defined as a continuous process starting with embryogenesis and the formation…

Q: In what ways do animals participate in the reproduction of seed plants?

A: Plant reproduction is the creation of new posterity in plants, which can be refined by sexual or…

Q: Compare and contrast the germination of a typical monocot and eudicot seed by addressing the…

A: Germination It is defined as the process through which an organism grows from a spore or seed.…

Q: Seed  plants  have eusteles  instead  of  siphonosteles  they  are  not  the  same  as  leaf  gaps…

A: The stele is present in ferns which represents the primary vascular tissues. The stele consists…

Q: Describe the key differences and similarities in the sporophytes of vascular land plants in…

A: These plants can develop into tree-like structures because their vascular tissues have the capacity…

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