2. On a walk through a botanical garden, you notice a small leafy plant that is growing along the edge of a small stream in a shady nook. You hypothesize that this plant is a lycophyte. What information can you gather to test your hypothesis

It can be said that ferns are not related to true mosses, since they look like pine trees and their growth in the ground is supported by trees.

Explanation:

To identify a fern, one must analyze the number of times its leaves divide and it must also be observed that the leaves are arranged. A large majority of ferns have fronds that are divided. It is also necessary to observe if the fern has spores under its leaves, facilitating the correct identification of the fern.

The following information can be gathered to test the hypothesis on whether the plant is a lycophyte.

FACTS ABOUT LYCOPHYTES.

- Oldest surviving lineage of vascular plants.

- First plants with real leave(microphylls 1st evolution)

- monophyletic (group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.)

There are two(2) evolutionary lines of lycophytes

a) small herbaceous plants

b) Woody trees (d=2cm and h= 40cm), extinct global climate change, largely drying.

Sporophyte (2n) is dorminant generation.

Some cells, e.g., skeletal muscle cells and nerve cells, become terminally differentiated, meaning that their ability to proliferate is permanently lost, although they continue to perform their specialized functions for a long time