Plants reproducing by spores such as mosses and ferns are grouped under the general term : -
A
Cryptogams
B
Bryophytes
C
Sporophytes
D
Thallophytes
The answer is A.
Solution
In older classification, plants were divided into cryptogams and phanerogams. Cryptogams ('hidden marriage') are plants that do not produce flowers or seeds and reproduce by spores. They include thallophytes (algae, fungi), bryophytes (mosses) and pteridophytes (ferns). Phanerogams are seed-bearing plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms). Bryophytes include only mosses and liverworts, thallophytes only algae and fungi, and sporophyte is the spore-producing generation of a plant, not a group. So plants reproducing by spores, such as mosses and ferns, are grouped as cryptogams.
ConceptCryptogams
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