BIS 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Meiosis, Archegonium, Lycopodiophyta

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18 vascular plant diversity - the road to seeds. Vascular plants were successful, but seeds were game changers could be. Stored for 2000 years! vascular plants made land more habitable. These plants made terrestrial environment more hositable to animals, which moved onto land only after plants became established key vascular plant traits. Water and food was transported throughout body > spread to new environments, rapid diversi cation, increase in size. Xylem also had a support function > taller size. Better competition for light and spore dispersal. Swimming sperm were an essential feature of the seedless vascular plant life cycle. Homosporous plants produce a single tpe of gameophyte with both male and female reproductive organs. Just one kind of spore sporophyte > microsporangium or megasporangium > spore mother cell(s) > megaspore or microspore > megagametophyte or microgametophyte > sperm or egg > zygote > embryo. A single megaspore mother cell undergoes meiosis to make 4 megaspores.

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