Differentiate between the following:-
(i) red algae and brown algae
(ii) liverworts and moss
(iii) homosporous and heterosporous pteridophyte
(iv) syngamy and triple fusion

Explanation

(i) Difference between red algae and brown algae.
(ii) Difference between liverworts and moss.
In liverworts, the gametophytic plant body is dorsiventral, leaf like and gives the appearance of liver whereas in the gametophytic plant body of moss is differentiated into stem like axis and leaf like lobes. It is radially symmetrical.
(iii) Differences between syngamy and triple fusion.
Syngamy is fusion between egg and male gamete whereas as tripple fusion is fusion of male gamete with two polar nuclei in the endosperm of angiosperms.