If the leptoids of mosses were found to contain a protein whose gene had the same nucleotide sequence as the gene that codes for P-protein, would that be significant evidence for either the homology or analogy of leptoids and phloem?

Q: How are these plants different from a typical plant stem? What are the gross morphologican and…

A: The first plant is Euphoria milii from the family euphorbiaceae. It is a thorny, woody stem shrub…

Q: Describe two adaptations that are present in mosses, but not hornworts or liverworts, which reflect…

A: Bryophytes are also known as amphibian of the plants kingdom because these plants grow on land but…

Q: Is the sporophyte of mosses ever independent of the gametophyte? Explain.

A: Plants are the autotrophs and primary producers in the food chain. Plants are classified as…

Q: Could Bryophytes, even though they lack vascular plant components (xylem and phloem), ever manage to…

A: Anatomy and physiology are the branches of biology, and anatomy deals with the study of the…

Q: Which of the following plant lineages is comprised primarily of organisms that are homosporous?

A: The kingdom Plantae is also known by the name of the kingdom Metaphyta. This kingdom includes all…

Q: The non-vascular plants are represented today by three phyla of small herbaceous plants namely:…

A: Non Vascular Plants -- Introduction --Vascular system is very important part of the plant as by the…

Q: Describe the plant-like and animal-like characteristics of Euglena. Which characteristics…

A: Euglena is a genus of single-cell flagellate eukaryotic organisms that have both plant and…

Q: Which type of plant is heterosporous?   A. moss   B. liverworts   C. pine trees   D.…

A: Spores are the structure produced by the meiosis in sporangial mother cells. These spores germinate…

Q: among liverworts, hornworts, and mosses, which is the closest to vascular plants? what are the…

A: Vascular plants, otherwise called Tracheophyta, structures an enormous group of plants that are…

Q: Trimerophytes were plants that probably evolved from rhyniophytes but with more derived features. In…

A: There are many tube-shaped fossils of plants found in the Devonian period are superficially kind of…

Q: In a young anther, a group of compactly arranged homogenous cells were observed in the centre of…

A: The part of the flower's male reproductive organ where the pollen grains are produced is called an…

Q: Ginkgo and cycads have broad leaves, whereas those of pines are needlelike. Can you suggest any…

A: Gingko, cycads, and pines are all examples of gymnosperms. They are often considered to be living…

Q: se you are given a plant belonging to the Division Gnetophyta, how would you tell the genus to which…

A: All the living organism are classifies into the five kingdoms. These five kingdoms includes Plantae,…

Q: Please type a brief definition of the following terms Photoperiod - Long day vs. Short day vs.…

A: According to the rules of Bartleby.com only the first three will be answer at this time. To get the…

Q: Is gamete producing hiploid gametophyte and spore produce diploid sporophytes?

A: Unlike higher animals, plants are capable showing both sexual and asexual type of reproduction…

Q: What is known about C4 plant evolution?

A: C4 plants are plants with distinctive kranz leaf anatomy which has chlorophyll- containing mesophyll…

Q: Which of the following pairs of plant structure has the haploid number of chromosomes?

A: Mega spore mother cell develops in ovule. Mega spore mother cell give rise to four megaspores…

Q: are the storage roots of sweet potato (ipomoea batatas) and the tubers of potato (solanum tuberosum)…

A: Analogous structures are those structures which are different in their basic structure and…

Q: Monilophytes and seed plants both have megaphylls, as well as other traits not found in lycophytes.…

A: Evolutionary trends are evident in organisms around the world. In plants too this long evolutionary…

Q: In some species, sepals look like petals, and both are collectively called “tepals.” Suggest an…

A: The ABCDE model for flower development proposes that floral organ identity is defined by five…

Q: If a theoretical plant grew in an arid waterless environment, give a probable description of the…

A: Description of a theoretical plant growing in arid waterless environment. Leaves are either very…

Q: Do mosses have an alternation of isomorphic or heteromorphic generations? That is, can you easily…

A: Mosses belongs to bryophytes. The bryophytes are also known as amphibians of the plant kingdom…

Q: According to the cladogram, do all basal angiosperms possess vessel elements?

A: Introduction :- An angiosperm is a flower-producing plant. Angiosperms, often known as flowering…

Q: How might the fitness cost of photorespiration in C3 plants favor the evolution of C4 plants?

A: Photorespiration is a wasteful pathway that occurs when the Calvin cycle enzyme rubisco acts on…

Q: when comparing the reproductive life cycles of moss and angiosperms, what differences allow the…

A: Moss lives in damp and shady places. These are the most primitive plants .Moss do not contain…

Q: a. What are the major groups of cone bearing seed producing plants -- briefly describe them and…

A: Plants are multicellular eukaryotic organisms which are autotrophic in nature that means they make…

Q: How these terms are related: “sporophyte axis”; “stem” and “shoot”. Do bryophytes and seedless…

A: BASIC INFORMATION  PLANT KINGDOM  It is one of the kingdom from the five kingdom classification…

Q: What are reasons for dominance of vascular plants?

A: Vascular plants possess conducting tissues: xylem and phloem. Xylem helps in the transportation of…

Q: When vascular tissue first forms, the central cylinder of xylem and phloem is called a stele. The…

A: As mentioned in the question The stele is the central part of stems or roots of vascular plants…

Q: What types of evidence support the hypothesis that land plants descended from the group of green…

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Q: Why are the stem-like and leaf-like structures of a moss plant not called stem and leaves?

A: Bryophytes belong to a non-vascular plant, which lack an internal organization of a vascular system…

Q: Describe the interrelationships among the different gymnosperm lineages, as inferred from the two…

A: Conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes are all classified as gymnosperms, which is also…

Q: What is the evolutionary importance of the emergence of seeds in the plant kingdom?

A: Introduction In this question we have to discuss about the importance of the emergence of seeds in…

Q: The absence of what two major traits indicates that a plant may be a bryophyte?

A: The plant kingdom is mainly comprised of multicellular, photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms that…

Q: Explain whether the micrograph shown in the question is a stem or a root that belongs to eudicot or…

A: Dicotyledons, or simply dicot, are plants with two cotyledons or embryonic leaves in their seeds.…

Q: Are mosses a direct ancestor of flowering plants? Explain.

A: Mosses are the plants found in the bryophytes. It is also known as amphobian of plant kingdom.

Q: Why do roots of manyswamp plants have a specialmorphology?

A: Swamp, wetland ecosystem characterized by mineral soils with helpless waste and by vegetation…

Q: In mosses, the leaves are very primitive because:

A: Mosses are primitive plants comes under bryophyta, which have primitive structures of leaf, roots…

Q: The Apiaceae is closely related to the Araliaceae, the family to which ginseng and octopus tree…

A: Introduction  The Apiaceae or Umbelliferae family of primarily aromatic flowering plants is also…

Q: If Rhynia or its contemporaries were the ancestors to the ferns, how did the gametophytes and…

A: Rhynia existed during Siluria and Devonian times.

Q: There is an evolutionary trend for more basal plants to be gametophyte dominant, but more derived…

A: The gameto implies gametes and phytate implies plants. The  planets that develop the structure of…

Q: There are two alternative hypotheses about the life cycle of the early vascular plants, the…

A: Vascular Plants are the plants which help in conducting water and food to all the different parts of…

Q: Do mosses have an alteration of isomorphIC Or heteromorphic generations? That is, can you easily…

A: Lower organisms - both flora and fauna such as algae, mosses, ferns, and lower invertebrates show…

Niche Conservatism

The term niche in ecology refers to the role that an organism plays in a community. The physical and environmental conditions that a species requires, as well as the interactions it has with other species, comprise a species niche like predation or competition.