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- 4. enclosure in which spores are formed.
- 6. multicellular structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants producing and containing the ovum or female gamete
- 8. group of plant species that reproduce via spores rather than flowers or seeds
- 10. organ or cell in which gametes are produced that is found in many multicellular protists, algae, fungi, and the gametophytes of plants.
- 11. slender sterile often septate filaments of many cryptogamic plants (as fungi) that are borne among the spore- or gamete-forming organs, are single or branched, and are composed of one or more cells.
- 13. plural sori, in botany, brownish or yellowish cluster of spore-producing structures (sporangia) usually located on the lower surface of fern leaves
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- 1. a single cell, or a mass of cells, or a modified bud of tissue, that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
- 2. liverworts (creeping ribbonlike plants) in the order Marchantiales, commonly found on moist clay or silty soils, especially on recently burned land throughout the Northern Hemisphere
- 3. haploid structure or organ producing and containing male gametes (called antherozoids or sperm
- 5. A covering flap or lidlike structure in plants and animals, such as a gill cover.
- 6. of Generations Alternation of generations is the type of life cycle that occurs in those plants and algae in the Archaeplastida and the Heterokontophyta that have distinct haploid sexual and diploid asexual stages
- 7. cells 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.
- 9. a plant body that is not differentiated into stem and leaves and lacks true roots and a vascular system. Thalli are typical of algae, fungi, lichens, and some liverworts.
- 12. structure in plants and fungi that functions like a root in support or absorption