Essays Tagged: "division pterophyta"

Name the three major types of vascular plants and discuss each. (Lower Vascular Plants, Gymnosperms, Division Anthophyta: Angiosperms or Flowering Plants

Lower Vascular PlantsLower vascular plants include divisions Lycophyta, Sphenophyta, and Pterophyta. Division Lycophyta includes club mosses and groun ... at each contains one vein that brings water to the leaf from the roots and carries away extra food. Division Sphenophyta is made up of horsetails or scouring rushes. Similar to the lycopods, horsetai ... e stem at each joint. Another similarity to Lycopods is their environment, carboniferous forests. Division Pterophyta is ferns. Ferns have large, multiple-veined leaves. Leaves of ferns are called ...

(2 pages) 73 1 3.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology