What are the main differences between antheridia and archegonia?
Antheridia:
Archegonia:
An archegonium is a multicellular structure or organ that produces and contains the ovum or female gamete in the gametophyte phase of certain plants.
Antheridia | Archegonia | |
1 | It's a club-shaped structure that emerges from a multicellular stalk. | They're mostly made up of multicellular organisms. |
2 | A huge number of cubic spermatozoic sperm mother cells are enclosed in a sterile jacket in an antheridium. | A flask-shaped structure on a short stalk is known as an archegonium. |
3 | The archegonia, which creates the egg cells, is the male counterpart organ. | It is divided into two sections. A ventral canal cell and an egg cell are enclosed by the venter. And the neck is made up of six vertical rows of neck cells that surround the neck canal cells. |
4 | A minute biflagellate sperm is produced by each spermatozoid mother cell. A huge specialized cell forms the apex of antheridia. | At the tip of the mature archegonia, a sugar solution attracts sperm. |