EEB340H1 Lecture 14: EEB340 Lecture 14.docx
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Lecture 14: the evolution of alternation of generations. Degradation of the callose wall now each spore begins to develop and deposit sporopollenin callose wall then degrades and tapetum beings to synthesize and secrete sporopollening, making spore cell walls more complex. End up with mature spores with sporopollening in their walls. Believed that to go from zygotic to sporic meiosis life cycle, there was a delay in meiosis and interrupted by mitotic divisions of zygotic. Egg is retained on the haploid individual feature was co-opted by land plants transfer cell walls are important for short distance transport because the zygote is symplastically isolated. Even adjacent filaments will provide nutrients for the zygote.