gametophyte
English edit
Etymology edit
From gameto- + -phyte (“plant”).
Noun edit
gametophyte (plural gametophytes)
- (botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
- 2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian[1]:
- In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.
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Translations edit
plant which produces gametes
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