5. SPORE – BEARING PLANTS
There are many kinds of Vascular Plants. One group is
called the Spore-Bearing Plants.
There reproductive structures are called spores.
Try to find time to examine the leaves of ferns in the
garden. Look at the back of the leaves. You will find black
structures neatly arranged somewhere along the edge of
some leaves. These structures are where spores of ferns
can be found. Ferns, horsetails and club mosses are spore-
bearing plants.
6. SEED BEARING PLANTS
Instead of spores, another group of vascular
plants have seeds for reproduction. Seed-bearing
plants constitute more than 95% of all vascular
plants. In contrast, spore-bearing vascular plants
constitute only the remaining 5%. Seed-bearing
plants may be divided into two groups. A big
majority of them have seeds inside the fruit.
Examples of these are avocado, mango, papaya,
etc.
7. QUESTIONS:
1. What are the plants in the paragraph?
2. What are the two kinds of plants?
3. What are the examples of seed-
bearing plants?
4. What are the examples of spore-
bearing plants?
5.Describe the seed bearing and spore-
bearing plants.
8. Activity 2
1. Get the plants; the ferns, mosses, and horsetails.
2. Observe the plants.
3. Describe the parts of the plants.
4. Look at the back of the leaves of the ferns, what
can you see in the
leaves.
5. Describe the spores of the ferns.
6. How do the ferns, mosses, and horsetails grow?
7. What are the characteristics of seed-bearing and
spore-bearing
plants?
8. Write a short paragraph about the seed-bearing and
spore-bearing
plants?
9. Report it to your class.
