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Fern Allies
... on the fungus to provide carbohydrate! The gametophyte bears antheridia and archegonia and motile sperm cells swim to the eggs to fertilize these. The young sporophyte, as for ferns, develops initially as ... nuclear division to form a female gametophyte with archegonia opening to the spore surface. Sperm cells swim down the necks of these to fertilize eggs and produce the new diploid sporophyte ...
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Horticulture, Article 5: How to optimize cycad seed germination
... drop, the pollen is pulled in as well. The pollen, which are actually motile sperm cells will be stored in pollen chambers until it is time to fertilize the ovule. This ... take as long as four months to occur. At the time of release, the sperm cells swim down a tube and fertilize the ovule. The embryo grows at this point and will ...
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Untitled Document
... 10X objective - bright field. Euglenoid Motion by Two Cells: 100x objective - Modified dark field illumination. A view of Euglena cells with flagella paralyzed by nickel sulfate. Euglenoid Motion: ... pennate daitoms. Saprolegnia - Zoospore release: Squirming zoospores inside a zoosporangium are released and swim away in a medium full of tiny flagellated bacteria. Click here for ordering ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Antheridia
... of simple sacs with a wall usually only one or two cells thick, and with a short stalk. They may be enclosed by ... a cavity in the thallus. Inside the sac develop large numbers of cells called antherocytes. On maturation of the antheridia, and in suitable damp ... male gametes. These always require a film of water in which to "swim" to the female archegonia, where they may effect fertilisation of an ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Archegonia
... canal cells, enclosed by a single layer of neck cells. When the archegonium is mature, the canal cells disintegrate leaving a mucus-like substance through which the male antherozoids (released from antheridia) swim to ...
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Lifecycle of Spikemosses
... and megasporophylls bearing megasporangia. The outer wall of the sporangia is a sterile jacket of cells that surrounds and protects the enclosed sporogenous tissue. In the microsporangia, the diploid ... the neck and ventral canal cells disintegrate to form an open passageway to the egg (7). Sperm, attracted by substances released from the matured archegonlum, swim through a film of water and ...
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Sperm Migration
... swim out. Here, the antheridium cover is seen in pictures 2 and 3. A motile sperm is also released in picture 3. Picture 4 shows a large mass of sperm cells being liberated. Under similar conditions, the cover cells at the tip of the ... and ventral canal cells degenerate, leaving an open passway, the neck canal, for the migration of the sperm cells to the ...
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Viewpoints
... are a noisy lot. Sea robins, drum-fishes and many others make sounds with their swim bladders; croakers grunt loud enough to keep China Sea fishermen awake at night; Hawaiian triggerfish ... considered not ripe yet. Within this thick and thorny husk are five little rooms or cells containing two, three or four kernels which look a little like dove’s eggs and ...
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The Ferns
... g. in the leaf litter) will germinate to produce a filamentous gametophyte. This comprises photosynthetic cells full of chloroplasts and a few colourless, thread-like rhizoids, as seen at right. ... antheridia, full of sperm cells, and flask-shaped archegonia, each with an egg cell, form on the underside of the heart-shaped gametophyte. The multiflagellate antherozoids (sperm) swim in surface water to ...
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Rearranging the Branches on a New Tree of Life
... earlier. They evolved, scientists believe, by ingesting other species of cells and then, instead of digesting them, adopting them as ... they could not reproduce; the only way sperm cells could reach egg cells was to swim or float to them. But eventually, according ... eliminated the need for sperm cells to swim free in the environment; now the male reproductive cells were contained in pollen. The ...
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