Q. What are the major characteristics of the bryophytes?
Bryophytes are nonvascular plants that is they do not have conductive tissues and they perform transport of nutrients and water by diffusion; they are cryptogamic, that is they do not present seeds or flowers; they are small in size; they present water-dependant fecundation in their life cycle the lasting form is haploid (the gametophyte) and the sporophyte depends on the gametophyte to survive.