A gametophyte (/ɡəˈmiːtəfaɪt/) is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular...

plants both phases are multicellular: the haploid sexual phase – the gametophyte – alternates with a diploid asexual phase – the sporophyte. A mature...

part of the gametophyte. The flowers of flowering plants produce pollen and egg cells, but the sex organs themselves are inside the gametophytes within the...

produces asexual spores. This stage alternates with a multicellular haploid gametophyte phase. The sporophyte develops from the zygote produced when a haploid...

usually the gametophyte stage in the life of a fern or other pteridophyte. Occasionally the term is also used to describe the young gametophyte of a liverwort...

sporophytes are free-living and only briefly dependent on the maternal gametophyte. The green, photosynthetic part of the plant is technically a megaphyll...

produced by the haploid generation, which is known as the gametophyte. The female gametophyte produces structures called archegonia, and the egg cells...

of bryophytes are: Their life cycles are dominated by a multicellular gametophyte stage Their sporophytes are unbranched They do not have a true vascular...

stages of its multicellular development within the tissues of the parent gametophyte. With very few exceptions, embryophytes obtain biological energy by photosynthesis...

One generation, the sporophyte, gives rise to the next generation, the gametophyte asexually via spores. Spores may be identical isospores or come in different...