Question

Where does the Sporophyte grow and receive nutrients in bryophytes?

Answer 1

Sporophyte depends on the gametophyte for nutrition:

1. It is linked to the substrate by unicellular or multicellular rhizoids and has thallus-like, prostrate, or erect morphology.
2. The bryophyte's primary plant body is a haploid. It is referred to as a gametophyte because it produces gametes.
3. Bryophytes have multicellular sex organs.
4. The male antheridium is the sex organ. Biflagellate antherozoids are produced by them.
5. The flask-shaped female sex organ known as the archegonium gives birth to a single egg.
6. After being released into the sea, the antherozoids come into touch with the archegonium.
7. The zygote is created when the egg and an antherozoid unite.
8. Zygotes do not instantly go through reduction division. They create a sporophyte, a multicellular organism.
9. The sporophyte is linked to the photosynthetic gametophyte and receives nutrition from it; it is not a free-living organism.