Biology 12th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0078024269
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-426-9

Chapter 23 - Plant Evolution and Diversity - Assess - Page 433: 7

Answer

b. Ferns have a vascular tissue.

Work Step by Step

Ferns are different from mosses because mosses do not have a vascular tissue like ferns do, therefore, the correct answer is b. Ferns have a vascular tissue. Mosses, like ferns, produce spores as dispersal agents so the answer. In the life cycle of both ferns and mosses, the gametophyte and sporophyte are both independent and ferns do have flagellated sperm.
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