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Life cycle in most plants involves an alternation of generations. Diploid phase produces a sporophyte, which produces haploid spores by meiosis. The spores grow into the gametophyte that produces gametes. These gametes fuse during fertilization to form a diploid zygote that then grows into another sporophyte. Transition to land also developed different methods for reproduction for the movement of gametes (zoospores) and dispersal of spores and seeds (zygospores) These plants lack vascular tissue rely on diffusion to move water, nutrients etc. which limits their size and where they can grow. Other category of land plants show additional characteristics: roots, vascular tissue: xylem and phloem, lignin. Seedless vascular plants: first vascular plants to evolve. Sporophyte is the dominant form in the life cycle. Of all the divisions ferns are the only ones with well-developed leaves: club moss, horsetails, ferns. Heterosporous (two types of spores: males and females)

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