A feature common to gametophytes of mosses and sporophytes of ferns is

Independent existence

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Autotrophic nutrition

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Unbranched habit

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Solution

The correct option is B Autotrophic nutrition
Liverworts, mosses, and hornworts spend most of their lives as gametophytes. The sporophytes do not have a free-living existence as they grow directly out of the fertilized egg in the archegonia and remain dependent on the parent gametophyte which synthesizes their nutrition by photosynthesis i.e. autotrophic nutrition.

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Read the following statements 1-5 and answer the question which follows them:

1. In liverworts, mosses and ferns gametophytes are free living.

2. Gymnosperms and some ferns are heterosporous.

3. Sexual reproduction in Fucus, Volvox and Albugo is oogamous.

4. The sporophyte in liverworts is more elaborate than that in mosses.

5. Both Pinus and Marchantia are dioecious.

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