It depends on your teacher, it should be A. It could be B if that’s what your teacher wants but I would go with A.
Answer:
The correct match would be:
1. Cuticle: It is a wax like substance made up of lipids and integrated hydrocarbon polymer usually synthesized by epidermal cells. It prevents or reduces the excessive loss of water.
2. Gametophyte: It is a sexual phase of plants in which they produce haploid gametes by the process of meiosis.
3. Nonvascular plant: As the name suggests, they are the plants which lack vascular system. They are also known as bryophytes and are divided into three types namely mosses, liverworts and hornworts.
4. Photosynthesis: It is the process by which producers or green plants make their food from carbon dioxide and water with the help of sunlight and chlorophyll.
5. Pollination: It is the process by which pollen grains are transferred from anther to stigma in flowering plants. Air, water, insects etc help in this process.
6. Rhizoids: It is a filamentous outgrowth found in some lower plants which serves the purpose of anchoring and conduction of water.
7. Sporophytes: These are the diploid plants which produces haploid spores by the process of meiosis.
8. Vascular plants: These are the higher plants which have fully developed vascular system i.e. they contain fully developed and functional xylem and phloem.
4. they are competing for resources
DNA replication needs to occur because existing cells divide to produce new cells. Each cell needs a full instruction manual to operate properly. So the DNA needs to be copied before cell division so that each new cell receives a full set of instructions!