BIOL 119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Apomixis, Seed Dispersal, Asexual Reproduction

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Every structure and process of plants exists to maximize the chance that the individual. The plant contains three basic reproductive structures: the flower- produces gametes and develops seeds and fruit, the seed- consists of embryo and nutrient stores, the fruit- develops from the flower and contains the seeds. Meiosis- nuclear division, halves the chromosome number or the haploid number of chromosomes. Fertilization- fusion of haploid gametes that produces a diploid zygote: sperm- male gametes, don"t contribute nutrients, egg- female gametes, contribute nutrients. Land plants are characterized by life cycle with two distinct multicellular forms one haploid, one diploid. Vary in how large and long live gametophyte and sporophyte are relative to each other. Moss: largest stage is the gametophyte: sporophyte is dependent on gametophyte for nutrition. Angiosperms: male and female gametophytes are microscopic, physically separate, and completely dependent on the sporophyte for nutrition: gametophyte found in various parts of the flower.

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