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Bryophytes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| non-vascular plant | Bryophyte or mosses |
| seedless vascular plant | Pterophyta or ferns |
| life cycle of bryophytes? | sporic |
| alternating generational forms/chromosome count | sporic life cycle |
| haploid generation name (not haploid) | gametophytic |
| diploid generation name (not diploid) | sporophytic |
| houses and protects the gametes | gametangia |
| active tissue that allows for spreading roots and shoots. | meristem |
| make up bryophyte gametophytes | gametophores, rhizoids, and protonema |
| body of bryophyte sporangium | operculum |
| terminal opening of sporophyte(bryophyte) | peristome |
| round, upright structure on gametophore | antheridium |
| produces sperms in bryophyte | antheridium |
| shaped like a long necked vase, houses eggs (bryophyte) | archegonia |
| name of sporophyte stalk | seta |
| mass of green filaments, one cell layer thick. | protonema |
| central stalk of gametophore | caulidium |
| leaf like whorls on gametophore | phyliddia |
| dead cell chambers that store water | hyaline cells. |