EEMB 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gametophyte, Sporophyte, Antheridium

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Sporophyte stage is reduced dominant gametophyte generation. Spores move through environment by wind widely distributed. Have thallus a thin gametophytic body. Mostly moving water throughout body through diffusion. Can"t grow very tall because water can"t diffuse up very far against gravity. Liverworts, mosses, hornworts only thing on land at first. Liverworts don"t have true stomata, but mosses & hornworts do. Non-seed tracheophytes overview: early fossils, evolution of roots & leaves, homospory & heterospory, major groups, lycophyta, monilophyta, wisk ferns, horsetails, most ferns, life cycle. Sporophyte produces haploid spores in the sporangium by meiosis. Spores germinate & undergo mitosis to become multicellular gametophytes. First mitotic division that results in a multicellular cell = gametophyte. Contain archegonia (contain egg) & antheridia (contain flagellated sperm) Flagellated sperm from antheridium fertilize the egg in the archegonium by swimming down external water. Fertilization leads to development of embryo that is protected inside the archegonium (where the egg was)

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