Lesson 2 - Nonvascular Plants

Lesson 2

Nonvascular Plants

Multiple Choice

Plants that lack vascular tissue for transporting materials are known as

• vascular plants

• nonvascular plants

Nonvascular Plants
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Diversity of Nonvascular Plants

•Nonvascular plants make up one of the four major groups of plants.

•Nonvascular plants are usually small to allow for transport by diffusion.

•Nonvascular plants are usually found in damp and shady environments

Multiple Choice

The organism in the picture is...

• moss

• liverwort

• hornwart

• fern

Multiple Choice

A hornwort is in phylum ____.

• Bryophyta

• Hepatophyta

• Anthocerophyta

• Lycopodiophyte

Nonvascular Plants
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Diversity of Nonvascular Plants

Division Bryophyta

•Division bryophyta contains the mosses

•Lack leaves but have similar structures

•Produce rootlike, multicellular rhizoids that anchor them to surfaces

•Move water and other substances through diffusion and osmosis

Multiple Choice

The common name for the organism in the phylum Bryophyta is

• horsetail

• clubmoss

• mosses

• fern

Multiple Choice

A tiny, root-like structure made of a few thread-like cells are called a...

• rhizoid

• stalk

• capsule

• protonema

Nonvascular Plants
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Diversity of Nonvascular Plants

Division Anthocerophyta

•Called hornworts because of their hornlike sporophytes

•Move water and nutrients through osmosis and diffusion

•Identifying features include the presence of one large chloroplast in each cell,
mucilage/slime between the cells, and mutualistic relationships with
cyanobacteria

Multiple Choice

Transports water and nutrients cell to cell by osmosis and diffusion

• vascular plant

• nonvascular plant

• vascular & nonvascular plant

Nonvascular Plants
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Diversity of Nonvascular Plants

Division Hepaticophyta

•Called liverworts because of their appearance and medieval medical use

•Tend to grow close to the ground and in areas where moisture is plentiful

•Classified as either leafy or thallose – shaped like a fleshy, lobed structure

•DNA evidence suggests liverworts are the most primitive land plant.

Multiple Choice

A liverwort is in phylum ____.

• Bryophyta

• Hepatophyta

• Anthocerophyta

• Lycopodiophyte

Multiple Choice

Which is not a group of non-vascular plants?

• mosses

• liverworts

• hornworts

• ferns