ferns differ from mosses in that the:?

Question

a. ferns do not require a film of water for gamete fertilization and mosses do
b. the sporophyte generation is dominant in ferns while the gametophyte is dominant in mosses
c.fern gametophyte grow to a large size; mosses gametophyte do not
d.mosses have a vascular tissues: ferns do not.

Answer 1

B. is true

A. Both plants need water for sperms to swim to eggs in the gametophyte generation.
C. Fern gametophytes are very small, heart-shaped structures. Moss gametophytes are also small. The fern sporophytes are the larger plants that we recognize as being ferns.
D. It's written backwards. Ferns are vascular; mosses are nonvascular.

Answer 2

Ferns are pteridophytes. Mosses are bryophytes. Mosses have rhizoids, simple root like structures, ferns have rhizomes or underground stems. Both ferns and mosses reproduce via spores, produced from the sporophyte and gametes from the gametophyte. Mosses do not have true leaves. The leaf like structures are haploid and unicellularly thick. Ferns have multicellular, diploid fronds.

Answer 3

b. the sporophyte generation is dominant in ferns.