Look up: Sporophyte

1. Sporophyte
   the part of a life cycle when the full complement of chromosomes are present.
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2. sporophyte
   The diploid stage in the life cycle of an organism undergoing an alternation of generations. The sporophyte is multicellular and develops from a zygote. The mature sporophyte meiotically produces haploid spores that later generate the gametophyte generation.
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3. Sporophyte
   Diploid stage in the life cycle of a plant
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4. Sporophyte
   A phase of the life cycle during which the plant has diploid nuclei and in which spores are produced after meiosis.
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5. sporophyte
   [n] - the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
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6. sporophyte
   Spore-producing plant generation. The dominant generation in pteridophytes and higher plants, and alternates with the gametophyte generation.
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7. Sporophyte
   Spo'ro·phyte noun [ Spore + Greek ... plant.] (Botany) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte . It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the ...
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8. sporophyte
   Spore producing plant generation. The dominant generation in pteridophytes and higher plants and alternates with the gametophyte generation. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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9. sporophyte
   noun the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
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10. Sporophyte
    • (n.) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.
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11. sporophyte
    in certain plants and algae, nonsexual phase (or an individual representing the phase) in the alternation of generations—a phenomenon in which two ... [19 related articles]
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12. sporophyte
    sporophyte: see gametophyte.
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13. sporophyte
    Diploid spore-producing generation in the life cycle of a plant that undergoes alternation of generations
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14. Sporophyte
    The `sporophyte` produces spores (hence the name), by meiosis. These meiospores develop into a gametophyte. Both the spores and the resulting gametophyte are haploid, meaning they only have one set of homologous chromosomes. The mature gametophyte produces male or female gametes (or both) by mitosis...
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