Observing God's World - 1.8 Plant Surprises: Ferns, Mosses, Algae, and Fungi

Pteridophytes: These are ferns, they grow just about anywhere like the mosses, but their surrounding has to have other plants as well.

Amborella epiphytes. Amborella’s epiphytes include mosses, liverworts, ferns, and other flowering plants (C to F). Amborella leaves and branches are covered predominantly with lichens ([C] and [F]), leafy liverworts (D), and mosses (E). Photos by Jérôme Munzinger

What kind of plant does not bear seeds, but does have roots and leaves? Give the name for its roots.   
-fern. it's roots are rhizoids and it's leaves are fronds   

Which type of plant does not have roots or true leaves, but grows from a slender thread of connected cells?   
-mosses   

Algae 

The world's smallest green plants belong to what group of plants?   
-Algae   

Plants of which family do not contain chlorophyll? List five varieties of this plant.   
-Fungus. mold, mildew, mushrooms, yeast, slime mold   

Wat do we call an organism that attaches itself to another organism for nourishment?   
-parasite
   
Give the name of the large spore-forming structure of a mushroom   
-fruiting body   

lichen

Beautiful lichen

What type of plant is actually a combination of fungi and algae?   
-lichens
   
What is the largest type of algae?   
-kelp
   
Fungi that feed on dead matter are called   
-saprophytes   


the main part of a fungus   
-mycelium

These (the top and bottom hyphae) microorganisms colonize dead and living organic material by means of hyphae that grow at their apices.

hyphae

the tiny, white, hairlike structures in which bread mold is first seen   
-hyphae