You are working as a botanist in a tropical forest and have located a small plant that has never before been seen or classified. You learn from your dissection of this plant that it has vascular tissue. Yet, over the lifespan of the plant as it grows and matures in your greenhouse, you observe that it never produces seeds. It does produce small cluster of spore-forming capsules on the underside of structures that resemble leaves. You classify the plant as a ____.

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The small plant that has vascular tissue and produces spores but not seeds is most likely a fern. Liverworts and mosses do not have vascular tissue, while horsetails and club mosses produce seeds in addition to spores.

You Are Working as a Botanist in a Tropical Forest