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Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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moss A group of terrestrial, nonvascular plants; the dominant plant body is the gametophyte with the sporophyte embedded in it.
motility Ability to move.
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moss
Any bryophyte of the class Musci. Usually these are small plants (less than 5 cm high) attached to moist or wet substrates by rhizoids; this is the sporophyte generation.
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The moss life cycle. The haploid gametophyte phase is free-living and photosynthetic. The diploid sporophyte grows from and is nourished by the gametophyte. Images from Purves et al.
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The first plants were moss-like and required moist environments to survive. Later, evolutionary developments such as a waxy cuticle allowed some plants to exploit more inland environments.
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Sphagnum moss, a wide variety of lichens, and some grasses and fast-growing annuals dominate the landscape during the short growing season.
Caribou feed on this growth as do vast numbers of insects.
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Other types of pseudofossils are kidney ore (round shapes in iron ore) and moss agates, which look like moss or plant leaves.
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Mahowald, John Lantos, Mira Lessick, Robert Moss, Lainie Friedman Ross, Greg Sachs, Marion Verp
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peristome -- A set of cells or cell parts which surround the opening of a moss sporangium. In many mosses, they are sensitive to humidity, and will alter their shape to aid in spore dispersal.
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