BIOLOGY [1 Mark Question Answer]

Example: Bacteria, fungi, algae
Characteristics:
(a) These plants do not have roots, stems, or leaves.
(b) They are non-flowering plants.

Example: ferns
Characteristics:
(a) They are non-flowering plants i.e. do not produce flowers are seeds. They reproduce through spores
(b) They have feather-like leaves divided into leaflets.

Examples: mosses, liverworts.
Characteristics:
(a) They have stems and leaves but no roots.
(b) They are non-flowering plants.

Examples: gram, rose, mango.
Characteristics:
(a) They contain two cotyledons in their seed.
(b) They have a network like (reticulate) venation in their leaves.

Example: Maize
characteristics
(a) They have seeds with one cotyledon
(b) Cotyledon usually becomes the embryonic first leaves of a seedling

Example: Mushroom
characteristics
(a) They cannot prepare their food
(b) Most fungi live on dead and decaying organic matter

Example: Spirogyra
characteristics:
(a) these are found in the stagnant water of ponds, growing as green scum
(b) they have chlorophyll

Since bryophytes grow on land but need water for reproduction (like frogs in animals), they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.