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- 4. rootlike
- 7. a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form.
- 9. A bud
- 10. an organ or body bearing gametes, as in mosses and liverworts.
- 12. 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).
- 13. a structure that closes or covers an aperture.
- 14. a sterile hairlike filament present among the reproductive organs in many lower plants, especially bryophytes, algae, and fungi.
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- 1. a genus in the family Marchantiaceae of the order Marchantiales, a group of liverworts.
- 2. Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- 3. Cells just means the bulk of a thing, but in plants specifically, parenchyma cells are thin-walled cells that make up the inside of many non-woody plant structures including stems, roots, and leaves.
- 5. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts.
- 6. the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- 8. the female reproductive organ in ferns, mosses, etc.
- 11. a male reproductive structure producing gametes, occurring in ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae.
