Essays Tagged: "horsetails"
Name the three major types of vascular plants and discuss each. (Lower Vascular Plants, Gymnosperms, Division Anthophyta: Angiosperms or Flowering Plants
gs 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, horsetails have an underground rhizome that ... naked seed includes some of the tallest and oldest plants in the world. It differs from lycopods, horsetails and ferns because they're fully adapted to life on land and live in dry places. An evolu ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
A brief History of Life on Earth.
During the Ordovician period (510-440 mya) marine organisms radiated all over the globe, mosses and horsetails colonized wet terrestrial environments. As the Ordovician period came to a close, major e ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology