DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ALGAE AND MOSSES

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ALGAE AND MOSSES

Algae	Mosses
They live in aquatic environment	They live in moist shady places
Their body consist unicellular to multicellular, filamentous , thalloid or leafy	Plant body consist thalloid or leafy
Reproduction is isogamous, anisogamous or oogamous	Reproduction oogamous only
Sterile jacket not covered their sex organ	Sterile jacket is covered their sex organ
Female sex organ is oogonium	Female sex organ is archegonium
Never produced embryo	Produced embryo
Sporophyte independent of gametophyte	Sporophyte is depend on gamephyte
Sporophyte didn’t developed	Sporophyte developed and differentiated into foot, seta and capsule
Mitospores usually present	Mitospores absent