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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in your own words.
Write the characteristics of the plants belonging to the division Bryophyta.
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उत्तर
The characteristics of bryophytes are:
- They are the first plants to live on land but require moist conditions to survive. For this reason, they are called ‘the amphibians of the plant kingdom’.
- They are non-vascular, i.e., they do not have specialized vascular tissues (xylem and phloem) for the conduction of water and food.
- They lack true roots, stems and leaves. However, they show more body differentiation than thallophytes.
- They have rhizoids instead of tree roots.
- They do not bear flowers and seeds.
- They reproduce both sexually as well as asexually.
- Bryophytes exhibit an 'alternation of generations' in which the gametophytic phase (haploid) alternates with the sporophytic phase (diploid).
- Examples of bryophytes are Riccia, Marchantia, and Funaria.
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