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Q.Bryophytes are often called the 'amphibians of the plant kingdom' because:

(a) they can survive only in water
(b) they grow on land but still need a film of water for fertilisation
(c) they lack chlorophyll and depend on other plants
(d) they have no vegetative body at all
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Bryophytes are terrestrial plants, so option (a) -- that they can survive only in water -- is incorrect. They are photosynthetic and chlorophyll-bearing, ruling out option (c), and they do possess a differentiated vegetative body (root-like, stem-like and leaf-like structures, or a thallus), ruling out option (d). What genuinely ties them to water is that their motile male gametes (antherozoids) must swim through an external film of water to reach the archegonium and fertilise the egg -- so although the plant itself lives on …

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