- sporophytic
- adjective see sporophyte
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sporophytic — adjective see sporophyte * * * sporophytic / fitˈik/ adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑spore … Useful english dictionary
Sporophytic — Sporophyte Spo ro*phyte (sp[=o] r[ o]*f[imac]t), n. [Spore + Gr. fyto n plant.] (Bot.) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; opposed to {gametophyte}. It is not clearly differentiated in the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sporophytic — See sporophyte. * * * … Universalium
sporophytic — adjective a) Of or pertaining to a sporophyte plant. b) Having the characteristics of a sporophyte. Ant: gametophytic See Also: sporangium, spore, sporogenesis, sporophyte … Wiktionary
sporophytic — spo·ro·phyt·ic … English syllables
sporophyte — sporophytic /spawr euh fit ik, spohr /, adj. /spawr euh fuyt , spohr /, n. Bot. the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores. Cf. gametophyte. [1885 90; SPORO + PHYTE] * * * In many plants and algae, the… … Universalium
Self-incompatibility in plants — Self incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms in angiosperms, which prevent self fertilization and thus encourage outcrossing. In plants with SI, when a pollen grain produced in a plant reaches a stigma of the same… … Wikipedia
plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… … Universalium
plant development — Introduction a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… … Universalium
Alternation of generations — (also known as alternation of phases or metagenesis) is a term primarily used in describing the life cycle of plants (taken here to mean the Archaeplastida). A multicellular sporophyte, which is diploid with 2N paired chromosomes (i.e. N pairs),… … Wikipedia
