Seedless vascular plants

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Section#02
Pg#304
 Learning outcomes
• What are the differences between seedless vascular plants and
nonvascular plants?
• List three nonvascular plants and three seedless vascular plants.
• Importance of seedless vascular plants.
• Relationship of seedless vascular plants and coal.
• How do seedless vascular plants reproduce?
• How do nonvascular plants reproduce?
 Critical thinking
• Do you think of plants like flowers that make seeds, but many plants
don’t.

• Why wouldn’t you expect to see nonvascular plants in the desert?

 Plants

Seedless
plants Seed
plants

Non-
vascular vascular
Seedless seedlees Gymnosperm Angiosperm
plants
 seedless plants
• The plants that do not produce seeds.
1) Non-Vascular seedless plants: they do not have specialized tissue
for transport of water and food.
• They transport by process of cell to cell diffusion.
• They live in damp soil, where they have easy access of water and
minerals
• They don’t have specialized organs like stem,root,and leaves.
• Rhizoid: small roots like structure which absorb water from soil.
• Stalk: the stem and leaves are collectively called stalk.
Non-vascular plant body (Mosses)
Life cycle of non-vascular seedless plants
 Reproduction in seedless vascular plants
• Seedless vascular plants and nonvascular plants have very similar life
cycles.
• First, the sperm from a male gametophyte joins with the egg from a
female gametophyte.
• The gametophyte produce sperm and eggs and germinates to
sporophyte.
• The sporophyte that grows from the egg and sperm produces spores.
• Then, these spores grow into new gametophytes.
 Critical thinking

Do you know the coal that we using

nowadays, from where it came?
 Importance of seedless vascular plants
• These non vascular plants died before 300 millions year and become
coal that we using it nowadays.
• Seedless vascular plants help form new soil when they die and break
down.
• Their roots can make the soil deeper, which allows other plants to
grow.
• Horsetails are used in some shampoos and skincare products.
 Assessment
1) What is the name of asexual life stage of non-vascular plant?
2) In which life stage the spores are formed?
3) The roots like structure in non-vascular plants is called
___________,
4) Is it possible to find no-vascular plant in dessert? Explain the
reason.
5) Will you use the stem of no-vascular plants in making furniture?
Period #02
Week#02
Seedless Vascular plants
 Characteristics of seedless plants
• Are club mosses, horse tail and fern.
• Size, 40, 18,8 meter tall, but today club mosses, horsetail and fern are
small.
• They have vascular tissue.
 Fern
• Live in many places like from Arctic cold to warm and damp/marshy
places.
• Some are like trees height up to 24m
Body structure
• Most fern have Rhizome.
• Rhizome: are underground stem from which roots and leaves arise.
• Fronds: the leaves of ferns are coiled called fronds or fiddleheads.
• Gametophyte: are small finger nail size having male and female parts.
• Sporophyte: are large body
 Horse tail
• Size: 8m
• Grow in marshy places.
Body structure
Stem: the stem are hollow and filled with silica feel gritty so American
called scouring rushes.
 Club mosses

• Size: 20 cm
• They grow in wood land.
• They are different from mosses because they have vascular tissue.
Life cycle non-vascular seedless plants
 Importance of seedless vascular plants
• It help in formation of soil
• After lichen and mosses it make depth soil.
• Fern and club mosses are popular house plants.
• The fiddleheads of some fern are also cooked and eaten.
• Coal come from these plants.
 Home task

• Use each of the following terms in separate sentence, rhizoid and

rhizome.