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Why is a pine tree called a sporophyte?

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I know calling a pine a sporophyte sounds weird as we normally think of sporophytes as mosses, ferns and liver worth, or as algae. But all plants on Earth can be said to be sporophytes, not just a pine along with those we commonly think of as sporophytes. read more

A sporophyte is a plant that has two different forms in its two life cycles -- a haploid form with one set of chromosomes called a sporophyte, and a diplod form with two sets called a gametophyte (as it's the form producing gametes). read more

A pine tree is generally a Sporophyte - a multicellular, diploid, spore-producing organism. However, the created spores are haploid, and thus begin the gametophyte phase, in which the microspores (pollen) and megaspores (female receptors), will combine back into a gamete, and begin the sporophyte stage again. read more

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