Cone-bearing plants like pine trees produce both pollen and seeds, while spore-bearing plants like ferns only produce spores and gametes without pollen or seeds. Mosses are small non-vascular plants that lack true roots and stems, reproduce via spores, and are classified as bryophytes. Ferns are vascular plants with true roots, stems and leaves that reproduce via spores rather than flowers or seeds like flowering plants.

1. What is the difference between a spore-bearing
plant and a cone-bearing plant?

2. Cone-bearing plants have pollen and seeds.
Spore-bearing plants produce no pollen or seeds.
Cone-bearing plants produce spores and gametes
addition to pollen and seeds, however spore-
bearing plants are limited to spores and gametes,
and produce no pollen or seeds.

3. Give samples of a cone
bearing plants, spore-
bearing plants.

4. Give samples of a cone
bearing plants, spore-
bearing plants.

5. What are the characteristics of
ferns? Mosses? Cone-bearing
plants?

6. Mosses are non-flowering plants which
produce spores and have stems and
but don't have true roots. Mosses, and their
cousins liverworts and hornworts, are
classified as Bryophyta (bryophytes) in the
plant kingdom.

7. Mosses are nonvascular primitive plants that produce
spores, whereas ferns are vascular plants. Furthermore,
mosses lack genuine stems, leaves, and roots, whereas
ferns have a plant body that is divided into actual
stems, leaves, and roots. Apart from that, unlike
mosses, ferns have circinate vernation.

8. Similar to flowering plants, ferns have roots,
stems, and leaves. However, unlike flowering
plants, ferns do not have flowers or seeds;
instead, they usually reproduce sexually by tiny
spores or sometimes can reproduce vegetatively,
as exemplified by the walking fern.