Compare & contrast bryophytes and pteridophytes
Bryophytes
Pteridophytes
- all embryophytes that are non-vascular (no xylem and phloem)
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Characteristics: they have tissues and enclosed reproductive systems, lack vascular tissue that circulates liquids, neither have flowers nor produce seeds, therefore reproduce through spores
- examples: mosses, hornworts, and liverworts
Pteridophytes
- vascular plants (with xylem and phloem) that reproduce and disperse through spores
- kingdom: Plantae
- characteristics: they have xylem and phloem (vascular plants), have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants, do not have either seeds or flowers