BIOL 1108 Lecture 12: Chapter 30 Plant Reproduction

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Algal ancestors of land plants need water to carry and disperse sperm and egg. Gametes of many land plants are carried passively through the air. Angiosperm evolve the capacity to harness animas as transport agents. As plants diversify on land, coevolution with animals emerged as a major theme in plant evolution. Alternation of generations: haploid gametophyte generation and diploid sporophyte generations that follow one after the other. Evolved first in algae, but the generations look the same. Land plants are rooted in one place but must be able to disperse offspring. Early plants could disperse offspring though the air, but they still needed water for fertilization. Since they cannot exist in air and water at the same time, they evolved a life cycle where one generation released sperm into a moist environment, and the following generation dispersed offspring though the air.

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