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In _______________ the sporophyte generation is clearly larger, more complex, and longer living than the gametophyte generation.

Yeast are ______

Mating types in fungi are generally termed as ________

What did Darwin famously refer to as an “abominable mystery”?

In all seed plants, male and female _________ develop within the parent sporophyte and are completely dependent on it for nutrition and water.

This category of plants produces seeds but no fruit.

You are given an organism to identify.  It has a fruiting body that contains eight haploid spores lined up in a row in a sac.  What kind of a fungus is it most likely to be?

You are a botanist surveying a previously unstudied island.  You discover a plnat that has a small free-living gametophyte that requires external water for fertilization.  After feeeertilization, a large sporophyte with xylem and phloem develops.  The gametophyte dies and the free living sporophyte eventually releases spores from sporangia that are located on its leaves.  Into which group should you classify this plant?

Double fertilization produces a _________ embryo and a ________ endosperm.

All known members of which fungal phylum form mutualistic associations with plant roots.