Bryophytes depend upon water because water is required for

Options

A. water is essential for fertilisation for their homosporous nature
B. water is essential for their vegetative propagation
C. the sperms can easily reach up to egg in the archegonium
D. archegonium has to remain filled with water for fertilisation

Answer

C

Explanation

(c) The antherozoids (sperms) of bryophytes are flagellated (motile) and need a film of water to swim through for reaching th archegonium. Bryophyta is a group of cryptogams. Main plant body of bryophytes is gametophytic (haploid). It bearing male and female sex organs.