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- 3. the case or sac in which spores are produced
- 5. is a genus in the family Marchantiaceae of the order Marchantiales, a group of liverworts
- 7. a cell or cluster of cells, or a leaflike or budlike body, that separates from the parent plant to form a new organism, as in mosses and liverworts
- 9. an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts
- 10. a pattern of reproduction occurring in the life cycles of many lower plants and some invertebrates, involving a regular alternation between two distinct forms. The generations are alternately sexual and asexual (as in ferns) or dioecious and parthenogenetic (as in some jellyfish)
- 11. cells function in storage, photosynthesis, and as the bulk of ground and vascular tissues
- 12. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns
- 14. one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns
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- 1. (thalli = plural) a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form
- 2. the female reproductive organ in ferns, mosses, etc
- 4. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel
- 6. a male reproductive structure producing gametes, occurring in ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae
- 8. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts
- 13. one of the rootlike filaments by which the plant is attached to the substratum