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(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote..
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.
Use gametophyte when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gametophyte means (botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote..
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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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