BIOL 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sporangium, Megaspore, Sporophyte

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Characteristics of all seed plants: continued reduction in size of gametophytes, heterospory, ovules, pollen, produce seed, reduced size of gametophyte. Tiny gametophytes develop from spores retained withtin the sporangia. Prtec catch up: heterospory- the rule among seed plants. Most seedless vascular plants are homosporous catch up: ovules and the production of eggs. Seed plants are unique in retaining the megaspore within the parent sporophyte. Integuments (made by sporophyte tissue) encloses and protects the megasporangium. Megaspore, and integuments before fertilization: pollen catch up. Unlike the bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, seed plants do not need water to disperse sperm. Most gymnosperms and all angiosperms do not have flagellated sperm. The sperm does not swim to the egg can be spread by wind or by pollinators (bees: production of seeds. Definition: an adaption for terrestrial plants consisting of an embryo packaged along with a store of food within a resistant coat .

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