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bryophyte reproduction

In plant: Anisosporous life histories
In anisosporous life histories, an unusual phenomenon in bryophytes, there is a size difference between spores produced in the same sporangium. Each meiotic division results in a tetrad of two small spores that produce male gametophytes and two larger spores that produce…
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