Question

Do ferns reproduce asexually?

Answer 1

Hint: Ferns the vascular plants that consist of specialised tissue for the conduction of water and nutrients throughout the plant and perform a life cycle under which the sporophytic phase is dominant.

Complete answer:
Ferns reproduce asexually through the method of spore formation as it is a non-flowering plant that undergoes the sexual mode of reproduction. Ferns have to-living generations which are a diploid sporophytic generation and haploid gametophyte generation. The sporophytic generation includes the spore-producing plants and the haploid gametophyte generation includes the gamete producing plant. The ferns which are visible to us are the sporophytic generation. They release spores which land on a suitable surface like a moist protected area for their germination and growth to form gametophytes.
A little flat green heart is a shape of the mature gametophyte of a fern which is about the size of a fingernail. The lower surface develops the male and female gametophyte plants and the male structures release sperm on attaining sexual maturity which swims to the water of the moist habitat for the fertilization of an egg in the female structure. One sperm of the one gametophyte can fertilize the egg of a different gametophyte and the fertilized egg develops into an embryo which initiates the deployed sporophyte generation. The lower surface develops the first tiny leaf of the sporophyte from the gametophyte which grows upward and becomes a plant like a fern.

Note:
 Ferns are distributed over Earth for 360 million years and were eaten by dinosaurs, conifers and others. They provide shelter and shade to several small animals and act as a source of food or medicine for animals which includes humans.