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    Alternation of generations (also known as metagenesis or heterogenesis) is the predominant type of life cycle in plants and algae. In plants both phases...
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    Spore-bearing plants, like all plants, go through a life-cycle of alternation of generations. The fully grown sporophyte, what is commonly referred to as...
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    develops into a new sporophyte. This cycle is known as alternation of generations or alternation of phases. Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts)...
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    Wilhelm Hofmeister (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    discovery of alternation of generations as a general principle in plant life. His proposal that alternation between a spore-bearing generation (sporophyte)...
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    two multicellular stages, and the life cycle is referred to as alternation of generations. The term life history is often used, particularly for organisms...
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    Sexual reproduction (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of March 2024)
    gametophyte and asexual diploid sporophyte, is known as alternation of generations. The evolution of sexual reproduction is considered paradoxical, because...
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    along the coast of Washington, United States. Salps have a complex life cycle, with an obligatory alternation of generations. Both portions of the life cycle...
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    stated above, some members of Blastocladiomycota exhibit alternation of generations. Members of this phylum also exhibit a form of sexual reproduction known...
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    Plant morphology (category Branches of botany)
    discovery of the alternation of generations found in all plants and most algae. This area of plant morphology overlaps with the study of biodiversity and...
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  • in that their life cycle involves alternation of generations. In animals, typically an individual produces gametes of one kind, either sperm or egg cells...
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    (seed plants), the life cycle of pteridophytes involves alternation of generations. This means that a diploid generation (the sporophyte, which produces...
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    living organism alternates between haploid and diploid states. Consequently, this cycle is also known as the alternation of generations. The diploid organism's...
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  • processes, different types of plants and algae vary, but many of them, including all land plants, undergo alternation of generations, with two different multicellular...
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    were important in the evolution of land plants. All land plants have a life cycle with an alternation of generations between a diploid sporophyte and...
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    Velella (category Cnidarians of the Atlantic Ocean)
    with a form of alternation of generations. The deep blue, by-the-wind sailors that are recognized by many beach-goers are the polyp phase of the life cycle...
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    develops into a new sporophyte. This cycle is known as alternation of generations. The spores of seed plants are produced internally, and the megaspores...
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    occur in separate multicellular generations or "phases" of the life cycle, referred to as alternation of generations. Since sexual reproduction is often...
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    used for fertilization of an egg cell to form a zygote. Megaspores are structures that are part of the alternation of generations in many seedless vascular...
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    existence of a multicellular, haploid phase in the life cycle between meiosis and gametogenesis is also referred to as alternation of generations. It is...
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    of scales or leaves, which are often modified to form cones, or on their own as in yew, Torreya, Ginkgo. Gymnosperm lifecycles involve alternation of...
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  • gametes. Gonozooids may play a role in labour division or in alternation of generations. A gonozooid typically has hardly any other function than reproduction...
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    reproduce sexually. The life history of red algae is typically an alternation of generations that may have three generations rather than two. The coralline...
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    of seedless vascular plants that are not true ferns. Like ferns, a fern ally disperses by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations....
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    Aurelia (cnidarian) (category Cnidarians of the Atlantic Ocean)
    northeastern and northwestern coasts of the United States, and those of northern Europe. Aurelia undergoes alternation of generations, whereby the sexually-reproducing...
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    pliopterus). Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that do not exhibit alternation of generations but instead reproduce asexually through a budding process. Zooids...
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    female sex organs (a hermaphrodite). The life cycle of land plants involves alternation of generations between a sporophyte and a haploid gametophyte. The...
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    single population. Alternation of generations occurs in most plants, with individuals "alternating" ploidy level between different stages of their sexual life...
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    Meristotheca papulosa (category Algae of Australia)
    with a branch width of 1–5 cm. The interior of the algal body has multiple axes. It has isomorphic alternation of generations (the sporophyte and the...
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  • Motion interpolation, a form of video processing Interpolation theory, an explanation of the alternation of generations in plants String interpolation...
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    Laminaria (category Marine biota of Asia)
    for many fish and invertebrates. The life cycle of Laminaria has heteromorphic alternation of generations which differs from Fucus. At meiosis the male...
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