(07.01 MC) Non-flowering, cone-bearing plants produce seeds in the cone. Other plants, like ferns and mosses, are non-flowering and do not produce cones or seeds. How does a fern begin the first stage of the life cycle?

It produces seeds instead of spores.
It produces spores instead of seeds.
The seeds turn into spores, which germinate.
The seeds sprout and germinate into seedlings.