Question

Which among the following has specialized tissue for conduction of water?

(i) Thallophyta
(ii) Bryophyta
(iii) Pteridophyta
(iv) Gymnosperms

• A. (i) and (ii)
• B. (ii) and (iii)
• C. (iii) and (iv)
• D. (i) and (iv)

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

(iii) and (iv)

Vascular plants are those that possess a specialized conducting system for the transport of water, minerals, and food materials, as opposed to the more primitive bryophytes—mosses and liverworts—which lack such a system. They include both the seed plants—angiosperms and gymnosperms, the dominant plants on Earth today—and plants that reproduce by spores—the ferns and other so-called lower vascular plants.