Gametophyte
A STAGE IN THE LIFE CYCLE OF PLANTS AND ALGAE THAT UNDERGO ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS. IT IS A HAPLOID MULTICELLULAR ORGANISM THAT DEVELOPS FROM A HAPLOID SPORE THAT HAS ONE SET OF CHROMOSOMES,VALLANSE A LA VERG4
Gametophytic; Megagametophyte; Gametophytes; Microgametophyte; Embryo-sac; Oophyte
·add. ·noun In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algae, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.