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Nonvascular
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Lacking specialized tissues, such as xylem and phloem, for transporting water and nutrients, used especially of plants like mosses and liverworts.
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Mosses are nonvascular plants that absorb water directly through their leaf-like structures.
Nonvascular organisms typically stay small because they lack an internal system for moving fluids over long distances.
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Nonvascular plants were among the earliest land plants to evolve, predating the vascular systems found in ferns, trees, and flowering plants.
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