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How Much Do You Know the Fern Plant

Add some tropical look to your garden!!
Priyanka Wadhwani
Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
These wonderful low-maintenance plants are perfect to give your house a lively look. For good amount of light and moisture, they have to be kept near the windows. Are you not interested to know more about them? Check out this quiz...
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Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
The life cycle of the fern has two different stages; sporophyte, which releases spores, and gametophyte, which releases gametes. Gametophyte plants are haploid, sporophyte plants are diploid.
Fern Fact
Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
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Pteridophytes are considered the first plants to have evolved on land and vascular tissue transports water, minerals, and sugars to different parts of the plant.
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Also known as the airplane plant, Boston Fern is listed as non-toxic to humans as well by the University of Nebraska.

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A frond is a large, divided leaf. "Frond" is commonly used to identify a large, compound leaf.
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Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
The main difference between mosses and ferns is the presence or absence of a vascular system.
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Ecologically, ferns are most common plants of shaded damp forests of both temperate and tropical zones.
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Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
A zygote becomes an embryo which takes about five days to reach the uterus from the uterine tube.
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Meiosis within the capsule of the sporophyte yields haploid spores that are released and eventually germinate to form a male or female gametophyte.
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Ferns and mosses are alike in one way: both reproduce by spores instead of seeds.
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Fertilization occurs when the fern's egg and sperm combine to form a zygote. Ferns require water to enable the movement of the sperm to reach the egg.
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