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Introduction to Plants 217
Section 21.2 Nonvascular Plants (continued)
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Organize the following terms with the correct definition below:
sporophyte, gametophyte, thallus, and rhizoid.
Term Definition
colorless, multicellular structures found in
nonvascular plants; used to help anchor the
plants to the soil
broad shape resembling a fleshy lobed leaf
diploid generation; grow attached to
gametophytes
haploid generation; dominant generation
Conclude how anthocerophytes became known as hornworts.
Create a graphic organizer that models the possible
common ancestr y of nonvascular and vascular plants.
Classify each group of nonvascular plants by naming one species
of the group and one identifiable structure on that species.
(^) SUMMARIZE
Bryophytes Anthocerophytes Hepaticophytes