BIOL 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Phloem, Archegonium, Sporangium

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 1030
• Professor: Scott Kevin

Document Summary

Lecture 23: the bryophytes are the group of land plants that are most closely related to the. Charophytes (algae) in terms of organization: the moss sphagnum is a tiny moss that typically dominates the landscape it occupies. In ireland, it is cut into pieces and used as a fuel resource: bogs of this dead plant material has been used in mummification in earlier times . Used as tannins leathery plant material when the peat of harvested: the six main traits of bryophytes: The life cycle has a dominant gametophyte phase (while a dominant sporophyte phase is found in vascular plants). The gametophytes are perennial may grow for years and produce extensive bodies with the lower parts dying off. They have no xylem or phloem can"t transport water and nutrients (like sugars from photosynthesis) over long distances. They have no roots which limits them to small bodies and moist environments.