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- noun Plural form of
gametophyte .
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The rupture occurred, in the first instance, at a meiotic anaphase in each parent, and the ruptured end then underwent the succession of mitotic anaphase breaks associated with the chromatid type of breakage-fusion-bridge cycle during the development of the male and female gametophytes -- the pollen grain and the embryo sac.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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If the cell cannot make a new telomere, which is the case in the maize gametophytes and the endosperm, trauma must be experienced as the evidence indicates.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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Anogramma ascensionis gametophytes (sporelings) and sporophytes in culture.
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Sporophytes are developing fast from gametophytes and early results show thousand of sporophytes can be produced in a short period of time.
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A pine tree is a sporophyte with tiny gametophytes in its cones
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Pollen is a made by male gametophytes, plant sperm.
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Thousands of gametophytes of this fern have been produced over the last six months.
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For example, the largest, fastest growing species in Phaeophyceae, macrocystis pyrifera, starts when spore producing sporophytes kind of the plant produce spores which are either female or male gametophytes.
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The gametophytes often show a blue iridescence and fertile sporophytes show a spotty pattern.
Find Me A Cure 2009
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The sporophyte then undergoes meiosis to produce haploid tetraspores (which can be male or female) that develop into gametophytes.
Find Me A Cure 2009
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