Why Pteridophytes are successful land plants?
Why Pteridophytes are successful land plants? There are about eleven thousand different species of pteridophytes, making them the most diverse land plants after the flowering plants (angiosperms). Pteridophytes may represent the closest living relatives (sister group) to the seed plants. Ferns reproduce by releasing spores rather than seeds. What traits do Charophytes share with land plants? Like plants, charophytes have chlorophyll a and b, store carbohydrates as starch, have cell walls consisting of cellulose, and undergo similar cell-division processes. Charophytes have unique reproductive organs that differ considerably from that of other algae. What was key to success of plants on...