Sporophyte Definition

spôrə-fīt
sporophytes
noun
In certain plants and algae, the spore-bearing generation that is diploid and reproduces by spores: the sporophyte generation begins with the fertilized egg and ends with meiosis.
Webster's New World

(botany) A plant (the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.

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Noun

Singular:
sporophyte
Plural:
sporophytes

Origin of Sporophyte

  • sporo- +"Ž -phyte.

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Sporophyte Sentence Examples

  • The sporophyte is always highly organized both as regards form and structure.

  • It is confined to the sporophyte, which forms the, leafy plant in these groups, and is known as the vascular system.

  • The independent plant which is generally attached to the soil by hair-like structures is the sexual generation, the sporophyte is a stalked or sessile capsule which remains always attached to the gametophyte from which it derives the whole or part of its nourishment.

  • The sporophyte is the plant which is differentiated into stem, leaf and root, which show a wonderful variety 01 form; the internal structure also shows increased complexity and variety as compared with the other group of vascular plants, the Pteridophyta.

  • After fertilization the female cell, now called the oospore, divides and part of it develops into the embryo (new sporophyte), which remains dormant for a time still protected by the ovule which has developed to become the seed.

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