BIOL-1507EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sporophyte, Gametangium, Gametophyte

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Sporophyte (2n) (meiosis) gametophyte (n) (fertilization) sporophyte (2n: all plants defined in this text are multicellular eukaryotes that are photosynthetic autotrophs. Carbon dioxide and oxygen diffusion through stomata. Photosynthetic cells contain chloroplasts with chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and a variety of yellow and orange carotenoid pigments. Carbohydrates stored in the form of starch are stored generally in the chloroplasts and other plastids. Mitosis occurs in all plants, proceeding through the typical phases. In the life cycle of all plants, an alternation of generation occurs in which the diploid (2n) sporophytes and the haploid (n) take turns producing one another. In all extant plants, the sporophyte and gametophyte generations differ in morphology that in they"re heteromorphic. For more than the first three billion years of the earth"s history, the terrestrial surface was lifeless. Geochemical evidence suggests that a thin coating of cynobacteria existed on land about 1. 2 billion years ago.

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