Question

2. On a walk through a botanical garden, you notice a small leafy plant that is growing along the edge of a small stream in a shady nook. You hypothesize that this plant is a lycophyte. What information can you gather to test your hypothesis

Answer 1

The following information can be gathered to test the hypothesis on whether the plant is a lycophyte.

FACTS ABOUT LYCOPHYTES.

- Oldest surviving lineage of vascular plants.

- First plants with real leave(microphylls 1st evolution)

- monophyletic (group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.)

There are two(2) evolutionary lines of lycophytes

a) small herbaceous plants

b) Woody trees (d=2cm and h= 40cm), extinct global climate change, largely drying.

Sporophyte (2n) is dorminant generation.

Answer 2

It can be said that ferns are not related to true mosses, since they look like pine trees and their growth in the ground is supported by trees.

Step-by-step explanation:

To identify a fern, one must analyze the number of times its leaves divide and it must also be observed that the leaves are arranged. A large majority of ferns have fronds that are divided. It is also necessary to observe if the fern has spores under its leaves, facilitating the correct identification of the fern.