In "higher" plants the sporophyte phase is formed after growth and development of the zygote,point out the type of cell division involved in this growth
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The zygote formed by fusion of male and female gametes is diploid .In higher plants this diploid zygoteshows mitotic division to form the diploid plant body which is calledsporophyte. A sporophyte is the diploid multicellular stage in the lifecycle of a plant or alga
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The cell division involved is meiosis. Spores in sporophytes are produced by the meiosis process.
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The process of meiosis is called as reduced division. This is the process in which the chromosome number is reduced to 'half' in each mother spore. Futher, the spores develop into gametophytes.
In addition, the resulting spores has only one set of chromosomes. The 'mature gametophyte' produces male and/or female gametes by the process of mitosis.
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