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What is Antheridia?


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Antheridia:

  1. The male sex organ in bryophytes and ferns, cryptogamous plants, and other non-flowering plants is known as antheridia.
  2. Antheridia are located at the tips of the main shoots of gametophyte mosses.
  3. Antheridia produces gametes called antherozoids.
  4. Whereas female organ is the archegonia, which produces the egg cells.
  5. In this, reproduction is through spores not via seeds and pollen.

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