Review Questions
1. Why are bryophytes classified in different phyla than the other plants?
2. Contrast the alternation of generations in mosses and to the fern and fern allies.
3. Distinguish between microphylls and megaphylls.
4. How are the ferns and fern allies different than the Gymnosperms and angiosperms? Similar.
5. Describe the features of the club mosses, whisk ferns, horsetails, and ferns.
6. How do the whisk ferns from other seedless plants?
7. Why are horsetails called scouring rushes? Label a diagram of horsetails.
8. Describe the club mosses.
9. Which groups of plants were dominant in the carboniferous period?
10. Define heterospory and homospory. Which groups show which character?