BIOL 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Megaspore, Zygote, Double Fertilization

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Lecture 26: the adaptations of land plants were mostly for the encouragement of sexual reproduction. This increases the genetic variability and a genetically variable population can adapt to various habitats and make the species successful: one of the main traits is heterospory. This is the development of tiny gametophytes (macrogametophyte male and megagametophytes female). They are microscopic and easily transported to the female reproductive structures. Restriction to moist environment is now gone new habitats can be taken over and reproductive success increases: the angiosperms are the most successful group of plants. They are divided into roughly two groups: the monocots and eudicots (eudicots are composed of members of the previously labeled dicot group that has now been shown to be paraphyletic): the monocots constitute about 50,000 species. Examples of them include lilies, orchids, grasses (corn, wheat, rice), etc: the dicots (referring to eudicots) constitute around 200,000 plant species.

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