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Definition of sporophyt in German English dictionary
- sporophyte
- The diploid stage in the life cycle of a plant, in species that show alternation of generations, that produces asexual spores
- In many plants and algae, the nonsexual phase in the alternation of generations, or an individual representing the phase. The alternate, sexual phase is the gametophyte. In the sporophyte phase, a diploid (see ploidy) plant body grows and eventually produces spores through meiosis. These spores divide by mitosis to produce haploid gametophytes, which then can carry out sexual reproduction
- a spore-bearing plant
- In plants with alternation of generations, it is a plant in the diploid phase that produces spores
- It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants
- In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; opposed to gametophyte
- The plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes
- The diploid stage in the life-cycle of a fern When you look at a fern, you see the sporophyte It produces spores which germinate to form the gametophyte
- The result of the mitotic division of the haploid spore It can also form from the union of haploid gametes and later give rise meiotically to haploid spores
- {i} asexual stage in the life cycle of a plant (Botany)
- the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
- Sporophyt (sporenbildendes Pflanzenstadium)
- sporophyte