Bryophyte
* All bryophytes can absorb water through the entire body surface
  - reproduce vegetatively, as well as sexually
  - have a sporic life cycle that is oogamous
* Many Bryophytes are highly specialized, and found in restricted habitats
  - bryophytes produce gemmae
* Most bryophytes absorb nutrients.
* Most bryophytes are capable of vegetative propagation
  - small in size and grow in clusters forming cookie cutter shapes
* Most bryophytes have nuclei
  - organs
  - structural features
* Most bryophytes have various features
  - live in moist habitats on land, although many actually live in the water
* Some bryophytes do have specialized tissues for the transport of water.
* Some bryophytes grow exclusively in dark, damp environments in order to provide moisture
  - in lawns
* Some bryophytes have gametophyte stages
  - rhizoids
* Some bryophytes lack tissue
  - vascular tissue
  - make food
* Some bryophytes produce compounds
  - relate compounds
  - require water
* also prefer living in shady places such as ravines and forest.
* are a group of plants made up of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts
  - type of pollen grain
  - among the simplest of the terrestrial plants
  - an important type of plant and include liverworts, some mosses and hornworts
* are anchored by tubular cells or filaments of cells, called rhizoids
  - vascular roots
  - believed to be the earliest type of terrestrial plants
  - considered as the amphibians of the plant kingdom
  - desiccation tolerant
  - distributed throughout the world, from polar and alpine regions to the tropics
  - ecologically important as ground cover in bogs
  - examples of haploid-dominant organisms
  - fungi and they are the most common moss that people think of
  - good nest-making material for birds
  - green plants that lack a specialized vascular or conductive system
  - however abundant and thrive in the humid and cool conditions
  - known as the non- vascular plant since the xylem and phloem is absent
  - low-growing because they lack vascular tissue
  - most abundant in climates that are constantly humid and equable
  - non-vascular plants that live in damp places
  - nonvascular plants
  - plants that lack specialized tissues for the transport of water
  - relatively small plants since they lack a vascular system to transport water
  - seedless plants without specialized water-conducting tissues
  - simple plants with few specialized organs and tissues
  - small in size and require water outside the plant for reproduction
* are small, inconspicuous, simple, and seem poorly adapted
  - nonvascular plants that first evolved approx
  - thalloid organisms with simple multicellular body
* are the earliest multicellular plant pioneers
  - group of plants that are the closest extant relative of early terrestrial plants
  - plants growing in moist and shady places
  - second largest group of green land plants
* are very old land plants
  - similar to each other and fundamentally similar to flowering plants
* belong to a primitive group of plants.
* can reproduce vegetatively in various ways.
* do have chlorophyll and conduct photosynthesis.
* form a division of the plant kingdom and include liverworts, mosses and hornworts.
* generally are photosynthetic, having chlorophyll to transform sunlight into energy
  - have much wider geographic ranges than vascular plants
* have a dominant gametophyte and a dependent sporophyte
  - unique life cycle in the plant community
  - a. true roots, stems, and leaves
  - many ingenious mechanisms to assist in dispersal of their spores
  - very simple seeds
  - xylem and phloem a
* include moss.
* includes cell membranes
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* is an organism
* lack an endodermis and they are unable to maintain large aerial systems
  - vascular tissue and are short in size
  - vessels
* live in moist areas.
* occur in all types of environments, except salt water.
* provide many ecological and economic benefits.
* reproduce both asexually and sexually.
* show a wealth of adaptive features to all kinds of climates, substrates and habitats.
* survive on bare rock in arctic conditions under low light levels as epiphytes.
* thus prefer moist and shaded habitats where a thin film of water is available.
* undergo alternation of generations.