sporophyte
IPA: spˈɔrfaɪt
noun
- (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
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Examples of "sporophyte" in Sentences
- Cones are part of the sporophyte.
- The seed is a container for an immature sporophyte.
- The gametophyte sporophyte junction in land plants.
- The spores of a sporophyte produce either tetrasporophytes.
- Vascular tissues developed gradually primarily from sporophyte.
- Further divisions produce three basic regions of the sporophyte.
- It takes about a quarter to half a year for the sporophyte to mature.
- The conspicuous plant observed in the field is the diploid sporophyte.
- The sporophyte phase produces spores within the sporangium by meiosis.
- Apomixis in plants is the formation of a new sporophyte without fertilization.
- Ulva produces isomorphic thalli for its diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte.
- The asexual form, known as a sporophyte, is represented by the fern plant as it is commonly known.
- The independent origin of this conducting system is of great interest for comparison with the vascular system of the sporophyte of the higher plants.
- A pine tree is called a sporophyte because it develops from a spore produces spores is haploid can reproduce sexually and asexually cannot undergo meiosis
- The common maiden-hair fern (_Adiantum pedatum_) has been selected here for studying the structure of the full-grown sporophyte, but almost any other common fern will answer.
- The last-mentioned case has been regarded as representing an apogamous development of the sporophyte from the gametophyte comparable to the cases of apogamy described in Ferns.
- Sometimes she could remember, sometimes there were flashes of brilliance, but sometimes she was lucky to remember the difference between the gametophyte and sporophyte stages of a fern.
- The terms oöphyte (egg-bearing plant) and sporophyte (spore-bearing plant, or sporogonium) are sometimes used to distinguish between the sexual plant and the spore-bearing one produced from it.