Bryophytes have the following economic importance.
i. Some mosses provide food for herbaceous mammals, birds.
ii. Some species like Sphagnum provide peat that is used as a fuel and a packing material.
iii. Mosses and lichens decompose rocks and help in the formation of soil.
iv. Mosses reduce soil erosion as they form dense mats on the ground.When and where does reduction division take place in the life cycle of a liverwort, a moss, a fern, a gymnosperm and an angiosperm?
Name three groups of plants that bear archegonia. Briefly describe the life cycle of any one of them.
Mention the ploidy of the following: protonemal cell of a moss; primary endosperm nucleus in dicot, leaf cell of a moss; prothallus cell of a ferm; gemma cell in Marchantia; meristem cell of monocot, ovum of a liverwort, and zygote of a fern.
Write a note on economic importance of algae and gymnosperms.
Both gymnosperms and angiosperms bear seeds, then why are they classified separately?
What is heterospory? Briefly comment on its significance. Give two examples.
Explain briefly the following terms with suitable examples:
(i) protonema
(ii) antheridium
(iii) archegonium
(iv) diplontic
(v) sporophyll
(vi) isogamy
Differentiate between the following:
Red algae and brown algae
Differentiate between the following:
liverworts and moss
Differentiate between the following:
homosporous and heterosporous pteridophyte
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