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Plants 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the two types of true vascular tissue found in vascular plants?

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Xylem and phloem

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2
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Are vascular plants more or less structurally complex than nonvascular plants?

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3
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Gametophytes of vascular plants are ________?

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Small and multicellular

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4
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What are the 2 groups vascular plants can be divided into?

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Lycophytes and euphyllophytes

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5
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All land plants grow in this way:

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Apically

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6
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What is lignin?

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A polymer that gives wood its strength

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7
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Do all land plants produce secondary lateral growth?

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No, only some

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8
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What are primary tissues?

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They develop from apical meristems and develop into roots, stems, and leaves

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9
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What are secondary tissues?

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Tissues that develop later within primary growth and thicken the root and stem

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10
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What are xylem?

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Water conducting tissue

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11
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What are xylem composed of?

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tracheids and vessel members

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12
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What are phloem composed of?

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Sieve tube cells and companion cells

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13
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What are phloem?

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Food conducting cells

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14
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What is the epidermis?

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Outermost layer of stems and leaves in a jigsaw pattern

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15
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Stomates are found where?

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Epidermis

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16
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What is the function of guard cells?

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Regulate gas exchange and minimize water loss

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17
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Trichome’S are specialized cells that are located where?

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Above ground - stems and leaves

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18
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What are the cortex and pith?

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Primary ground tissues

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19
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Where are the cortex and pith located?

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The pith is located in the center, surrounded by vascular bundles and with cortex on the outerlayer

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20
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What does a shoot consist of?

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Stem and leaves

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21
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Where do primary tissues arise?

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Apical meristem

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22
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Where do lateral shoots arise?

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Axillary buds

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23
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Stems and leaves develop from where?

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Shoot apex

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24
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What is the innermost layer of root cortices?

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Endodermis

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25
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Name the strip that is attached to the plasma membrane of the cell

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Casparian strip

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26
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What does the Casparian strip contain?

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Suberin

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27
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What is the function of the Casparian strip?

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Block the movement of water between cells

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28
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What is the function of Suberin?

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Seal the endodermis so water no longer moves into the vascular cylinder

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29
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What is a protostele?

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The earliest arrangement of primary vascular tissues in stems and roots with a solid core of xylem is in the center

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30
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Describe the arrangement of Siphonosteles.

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Solid cylinders of vascular tissue with pith in center

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31
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Describe Eusteles

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Pith in center, vasc bundles in a circle

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32
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Describe Atactosteles Hint: tact, scat

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Scattered vascular bundles in monocot stems

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33
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Seed plants and their ancestors are characterized by primary or secondary growth?

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Secondary

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34
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When does secondary growth occur?

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Within primary growth after primary tissues are formed

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35
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Where does secondary growth develop from?

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Secondary meristems

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36
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What does the Vascular Cambium produce? Hint: 3 things, 2 are 2ndary

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Produce secondary xylem and phloem and rays

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37
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Vascular rays are oriented in what way?

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Radially

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38
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The cork cambium produces what on the outside?

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Cork

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39
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The cork cambium produces what on the inside?

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Phelloderm

40
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What are cork and phelloderm called together ? Hint: suffix is also ‘derm’

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Periderm

41
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As the epidermis disappears, cork cambium provides what?

A

Waterproof Protection

42
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Wood is what kind of tissue?

A

Secondary xylem

43
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Bark is what kind of tissue?

A

Secondary phloem

44
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Which layer of park contains periderms?

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Outer

45
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Reproductive leaves of vascular plants are called ?

A

Sporophylls

46
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What do sporophylls bear?

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Sporangia

47
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Sporophylls are sometimes clustered together into what?

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Cones called strobili

48
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Stems that are below ground are called

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Rhizomes

49
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Microphylls form from branching from what?

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A protostele

50
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Megaphylls branch from what?

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Vascular bundles

51
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Homosporous sporophytes produce how many types of spores?

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One

52
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Heterospores produce how many types of spores?

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Two

53
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What are the two types of spores produced by heterosporous sporophytes?

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Microspores (male) and megaspores (female)

54
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Lycophytes are also known as what

A

Club moss

55
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What is the sistergroup to seed plants?

A

Monilophytes

56
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Microphylls are exclusive to what group of land plants?

A

Lycophytes (club mosses and relatives )

57
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Euphyllophytes have what kind of leaves?

A

True leaves

58
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What 2 groups make up euphyllophytes?

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Monilophytes and seed plants

59
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Name the 3 monilophytes

A

Horsetails, whisk ferns, leptosporangiate ferns

60
Q

Tripled endosperm is a characteristic of which plants?.

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Gymnosperms and flowering plants

61
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What 2 groups contain heterosporous species?

A

Monilophytes and lycophytes

62
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What is a sporophyte?

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The asexual and usually diploid phase in a plant’s life cycle.

63
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Is Equisetum homosporous?

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Yes

64
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Is Ceratoperis homosporous?

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Yes

65
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Is Selaginella homosporous?

A

No

66
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Is Lycopodium homosporous?

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yes

67
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Is Marchantia homosporous?

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yes

68
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T/F: Heterospority occurs only in vascular plants

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True

69
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Are fern spores haploid?

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Yes

70
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Are leaf cells of a moss 2n or n?

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n

71
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Are leaf cells of Equisetum 2n or n?

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2n.

72
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Are Megaspores haploid?

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yea

73
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Is the sporophyte of a Marchantia 2n or n?

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2n

74
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The specialized cells that are above ground , such as stems and leaves, are called what?

A

Trichomes

75
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Leaves and stem develop from the _______ apex

A

shoot

76
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What is the purpose of roots?

A

anchor plant in soil to absorb water and nutrients

77
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How do roots develop?

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Apically

78
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As a root matures, the endodermis becomes sealed with ________ and water no longer moves into the vascular cylinder

A

suberin

79
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The vascular cambrium produces secondary ________ and _________

A

xylem , phloem

80
Q

cork cambium produces _______ on the outside and _________ on the inside

A

cork and phelloderm

81
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wood and bark are secondary _______ and __________

A

xylem and phloem

82
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inner bark has no ________ but in outer bark, there is many

A

periderms

83
Q

Reproductive leaves on sporophyte are called _____________

A

sporophylls

84
Q

Sporophylls bear ________

A

sporangia

85
Q

Sporophylls are sometimes clustered into cones called ________

A

strobili

86
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Microphylls have no _______

A

leaf gap

87
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Microphylls are a characteristic of a group called _____________

A

lycophytes

88
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Microphylls branch from a _______________

A

protostele

89
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Megaphylls have a __________

A

leaf gap

90
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Megaphylls branch from _________

A

siphonosteles and eusteles

91
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Megaphylls are a characteristic of

A

euphyllophytes

92
Q

Describe the difference between heterospory and homospory

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one vs two spore types. Heterospory forms microspores in microsporangia and megaspores in megasporangia

93
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Describe endospory vs exospory

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types of gametophytes. Exosporic ones usually photosynthetic and break out to develop independently, endosporic develops inside spore wall

94
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All species with endosporic gametophytes are ____________

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heterosporous

95
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all species with exosporic gametophytes are _____________

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homosporous

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